Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edicts still forbid the teaching of religion to children under 18, distribution of the Bible or church literature, any form of "religious propaganda." Yet even the League of the Militant Godless admits that millions of Russians (in 1936 it estimated half the total population) still cling to their Greek Orthodox faith...
...heterogeneous population of the Netherlands Indies, those elements of individuality and communal sense-though often not fully developed-are present, which have endowed Indonesian, Chinese and Hollander alike with the blessed gift of humor, the will for mutual appreciation and tolerance, and the power to stand united should-God forbid-we too be overcome by the catastrophes...
Since most Houses forbid radio-playing after 10:00 or 10:30 o'clock, the Network has theoretically been wasting its waves on silent receivers during the past year. Actually the ammended parietal rule, which allows students to listen in if their radios are "so adjusted as not to be heard in any neighboring room," throws out unenforceable regulations broken nightly by a large percentage of the College...
...Department restrictions now forbid Army officers in Puerto Rico to disclose what they have and have not there, what they plan to have for defense on the island. Before these restrictions went into effect last month, Army announcements had already summarized the forces then on the island. At huge, slowly building Borinquen Field on Puerto Rico's northwestern tip, there was one group of about 15 obsolescent medium bombers; at Ponce air base, near the south-central coast, there was an equal number of equally outmoded P36 pursuit planes. Planned and announced but not yet at their stations were...
...zone of Turkey's security, they will face a real catastrophe. Turkey is the strong front of the Islamic East. Any attack against Turkey would provoke all Orientals and lead them to defend Turkey with their lives and their money. The fall of Turkey, which Allah forbid!-would mean the fall of the Eastern Front and a loss of prestige for Islam. The new Turkey, with her ally, Britain, forms a tremendous power in the East competent to resist any aggression...