Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the election campaign, for example, all of the opposition campaign literature had to be approved by the government. The country's main problem, the fighting in its African colonies, was a forbidden topic, and an opposition campaign meeting was quickly broken up when a candidate dared to mention "this unjust war." Calling the whole process a fraud, the opposition withdrew from the contest five days before the voting and urged its supporters to boycott the polls. However justified, that action assured the Caetano government, whose victory was never in doubt, that there would not be even the smallest...
...protect their confreres against just such attacks. Formed by the Rev. Ray, a Pentecostal Evangelist and known homosexual who himself was once beaten severely outside his gay mission center, the Panthers patrol the streets nightly with chains, billy clubs, whistles and cans of red spray paint (a substitute for forbidden Mace). Their purpose, as the Rev. Ray candidly puts it, is to strike terror in the hearts of "all those young punks who have been beating up my faggots...
...Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953. Playboy's findings: over the past 25 years "there have been dramatic increases in the frequency with which most Americans engage in various sexual activities and in the number of persons who include formerly rare or forbidden techniques in their sexual repertoires...
...court found that Telex was far from blameless in its own business practices. In a countersuit, IBM was awarded $21.9 million for losses suffered in the theft of computer secrets by Telex, which was forbidden for the next two years to hire ex-IBM employees without court approval. Yet IBM, whose mighty stock shot down 38% points to 259½ in the two trading days following the decision's announcement, had experienced a rare defeat that might grow even more serious in months to come...
Meanwhile, Sakharov remained imperturbable. In yet another of his now famous forbidden interviews with foreign newsmen, he asked that the security conference consider the plight of dissidents being tortured in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. As for himself, he said: "I am no more afraid now than I have ever been. The world has its eyes on me. I think the world will save...