Word: forbiddenness
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...terrible freedom of war--with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities--inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle--deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...
...terrible freedom of war - with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities - inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle - deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...
...League tightly regulates the schedules of each of its athletic teams and rarely makes exceptions. Spring sports, in particular, are forbidden from playing games before the first week of March...
...however. Because they are transmitted by satellite, they can be viewed by almost anyone in China with a satellite dish. The government doesn't allow individuals to own dishes, but many do so illegally, and small cable networks routinely offer the channels to subscribers even though it's technically forbidden. By some estimates, there are more than 40 million households with access via illegal dishes to otherwise unavailable TV programs. "We don't encourage this distribution," says a News Corp. executive, "but we can't stop...
...encouraged forbidden love, matched up current couples and gave hope to more than 1,600 students searching for computer-assisted romance on Valentine?...