Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleges has further forbidden possession of alcoholic beverages on campus...
...English Channel. Moving slowly along Britain's southern coast, they anchored off Falmouth, 50 miles from Plymouth, where the naval maneuvers were to start. Local fishermen did a rushing business ferrying out sightseers at eight shillings a trip. The Russians refused all requests to board, some shouting "Is forbidden" and others "We go fishing...
...maneuvering them up against an electric fence in an effort to get more appropriations and higher postal rates. Last week the Senate's Post Office Committee 1) resolved unanimously to ban reduction of mail service, and 2) reported out a bill by which the reduction order could be forbidden by law. Since the Senate Appropriations Committee was also on the verge of adding $28 million to the postal budget, it seemed certain that all concerned could claim a political victory and that the postman would still ring twice...
...British. "The essential plot in British films is that of the conflict of forbidden impulses with conscience . . . British films evoke the feeling that danger lies in ourselves, especially in our impulses of destructiveness. In a cautionary way, they show what happens if these impulses break through, particularly where the weak become the victims. Thus they afford a catharsis at the same time that they demonstrate the value of defenses by showing the consequences bf their giving...
...American film plots are pervaded by false appearances ... It is in false appearances that the forbidden wishes are realized ... In a false appearance the heroine is promiscuous, the hero is a murderer, the young couple carry on an illicit affair . . . This device makes it possible for us to eat our cake and have it, since we can enjoy the suggested wish-fulfillments without emphatic guilt . . . American films [contend] that we should not feel guilty for mere wishes...