Word: forbiddenness
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...years of visiting China, and now that Britain has agreed to return Hong Kong to the People's Republic in 1997, the royal progress began last week. In Peking she reviewed an honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour lunch, and people along the route, which included Shanghai, Kunming and Canton, gave her the largest reception yet of any foreign trip during her 34-year reign. Trouble...
Washington's role in the supply runs, legally forbidden until the aid bill became law, remained a matter of heated dispute. U.S. diplomats in Central America privately say that both the CIA and the State Department knew of the operations but were careful to avoid becoming directly involved. While Gomez had previous CIA ties, they said, he probably volunteered to aid the contras as a private operative...
...quotas in hiring at institutions doing business with the federal government is forbidden by a U.S. executive order, said John B. Williams, Harvard's executive assistant to the president on affirmative action...
EVEN MORE UNPLEASANT are the signs of elitism that pervade the clubs. Some rooms of each Club are forbidden to non-members. If you invite friends over, you must tell them "you can go here but not there." Some clubs require women to enter through a side door. All clubs have a punching process that excludes people with little rhyme or reason...
...early years in Gorky, we often gave lifts to strangers; then we were forbidden to do that. The authorities enforced their ban by puncturing our tires and that sort of thing. Seeing that we did not understand fully, they began hauling passengers forcibly out of the car. Once, when Andrei was driving, he took in two women -- one was very elderly and could barely shuffle. As soon as he started the engine, our police escort ran over and stopped our car with shouts and curses, and then he pulled the two women out of the car. The old woman...