Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana several years ago. a wife settled a fight with her husband by having him arrested for sodomy, "the abominable crime against nature" that is forbidden by nearly all the 50 states. Result: the husband received a maximum 14-year prison sentence for doing what many people now regard as unobjectionable. Fortunately for him, a federal court of appeals reversed his conviction, implying that Indiana's anti-sodomy law itself might well be unconstitutional...
...that were circulating privately were brought out of the country by travelers. The secret police planted others with publishers in an attempt to manufacture a criminal case against Solzhenitsyn under the Soviet law that forbids an author to disseminate "anti-Soviet literature." Since 1968, Cancer Ward and other works forbidden in Russia have become bestsellers in the West despite Solzhenitsyn's vehement public protests against their publication...
...Wall Street brokers, and do far more trading in bonds and securities than their domestic customers could possibly require. In fact, Americans dealing through the banks have been able to buy and sell on the stock exchanges, ignoring SEC requirements on margins, evading taxes on profits and indulging in forbidden insider trading...
...other disciples have overheard the last part of this exchange, and by now they mistakenly assume that they can remain partly independent of Bhaktivedanta and still progress toward Krishna. They begin to pick Vedic fruits for the devotee, despite the fact that he has forbidden them...
...Vientiane government. A new Geneva accord signed in 1962 called for the establishment of a tripartite government in Vientiane, with Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutralists holding the balance between General Phoumi Nosavan's right-wing forces and Souphanouvong's Pathet Lao. Foreign troops were expressly forbidden...