Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indicated that it was just as opposed to the de facto segregation in the cities of the North as to the now forbidden legal segregation of the South. Ruling on the system in Denver, the court upheld a lower-court finding that the school board had fostered segregation in a significant portion of the city. Sending the case back to the lower courts for further action, the Justices said that unless the school board can prove it did not practice segregation in mixed neighborhoods, it may be required to integrate the entire system, presumably by busing if necessary...
Tenters are forbidden from renting space, as are owners of superdeluxe mobile homes. "Large mobile homes-the ones that aren't really mobile-aren't permitted here," says Joe Agen, Nettles Island general manager. "We don't want clotheslines strung from trees, or anything like that...
Truck deliveries would be forbidden except at night. New tolls would be imposed on all East River and Harlem River bridges that now are free...
...inequity and selfishness in the Kraus plan by shifting most responsibility for the financial squeeze to the Federal government's cutbacks. The strategy enabled administrative spokesmen to ignore the question of Harvard's internal financing policy, a question the Union tried specifically to address, but which proved to be forbidden territory as the dispute evolved...
...dance to the dictates of a totalitarian state. This is the situation drawn in the story "Man in the Drawer," where an American pays a visit to Soviet Russia and becomes unwillingly involved with the struggles of a Russian writer. Presented with the challenge of smuggling the Russian's forbidden stories out of the country, the American can respond only with fear and irritation. He wants to be left alone to lick the froth off the attractions of a tourist's Russia and to work out the personal problems he has tried to leave behind in America. "Like Isaac Babel...