Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Yalta formula, any one of the Big Five could forbid action by the Security Council except on "procedural matters." What was a "procedural matter"? The Russians looked at the Dumbarton Oaks draft of a world charter and found two sections labeled "Procedure." They said that matters (mostly inconsequential) dealt with in those sections were excepted from the veto-and that nothing else...
...whose vile Prescriptions, the Child is forbid Life...
...suggest that the men who have fought steadily since D-day (or before, Heaven forbid!) be sent home from Germany and given surveys. ... A large percentage would volunteer for extra service in the Pacific if given the opportunity for advancement and additional compensation. A volunteer army recruited from the troops who fought in Europe would be an army with a high morale...
...bill barring dogs, cats, and other pets from hotel rooms and tourist camps. In Nashville, for the protection of married men, a bill was introduced in the Legislature which would make the wearing of lipstick a felony. In Durham, N.C., State Senator R. A. Whitaker introduced a bill to forbid public, habitual drunkenness among judges...
...that I had to pay ?50,000 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer within two years. And the result of that catastrophe is that I am now using my copyrights not to have my plays filmed and thereby give employment and enjoyment to my fellow citizens, but to forbid and suppress them in order to reduce my income to a point at which it will be possible for me to live...