Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stick to the official program." He was not kidding. His instructions were enforced by pistol-toting guards stationed outside the hotel. Anyone trying to make the normal round of journalistic contacts with diplomats and other sources-or even to go to a restaurant-was stopped cold. Taxi drivers were forbidden to pick up the reporters. "They can't tell you that," Wood said to one cabby. "Oh, they can tell us anything," whispered the driver, as a guard hovered a few feet away...
...permission, and childless widows need a brother-in-law's approval for remarriage, sometimes gaining it with bribes. If a woman has been widowed three times, with all three husbands dying of natural causes, she is declared the isha katlanit, the fatal woman, and is legally forbidden to marry again. If a husband simply disappears, no matter how long he has been missing, his wife cannot remarry without absolute proof of his death...
...attempted as early as 1597 by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi, who grafted attached flaps of the patient's own skin and thus evaded the body's rejection mechanism more than three centuries before this phenomenon was scientifically understood. Such procedures were declared impious and were forbidden. More recent restoration efforts, using metal ear molds or dead cartilage, have produced poor results in many cases, although silicones have been employed successfully...
...stories of how defendants had been wronged by the marijuana laws, and for years the judges had summarily whisked the whining wrongdoers off to penitentiaries. But this case was different. In this instance the defendant was released because he truly did have a special reason for smoking the forbidden weed--he needed it to treat his worsening case of glaucoma...
...Prem Amida. who once conducted Arica therapy in the U.S. under the name of Enid Stevens, offers Intensive Enlightenment. Group members sit opposite partners and for 17 hours take turns in five-minute bouts answering the often painful question. "Who am I?" For three days, all other subjects are forbidden...