Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These facts come easily to my mind only because I am that patient called Smith. May God forbid the continued absence of Bacchus and Morpheus at the "House of Little Gray Slippers." Hugh M. Smith...
...generation which was facing fiercer foes of the moral order than Demon Rum. But only 15 years before, Maryland's Senator William Cabell Bruce had risen on the Senate floor to speak the indignation that many another angry church member must have felt: 'God forbid that any clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed ... If he were to preach...
...bills introduced into the New Hampshire State Legislature which forbid "teaching and advocating the over throw of the government by force in all schools" were under discussion by Professor Dagget. He declared these bills arose out of a "fundamental misunderstanding of academic freedom...
...duchess stormed to her feet. "I forbid you," she cried, throwing back her yellow locks like an outraged lioness, "to compare my activities with those of our country's enemies. Don't you dare!" The president jangled a bronze bell to restore order...
...year-old bacheloi named Avinashilingam Chettiar, Minister of Education for Madras province. A great admirer of the late Mahatma Gandhi, Chettiar invariably wears a jibba (a loose long-sleeved shirt) and a Gandhi-type loincloth. As a member of the provincial cabinet, he voted with the majority to forbid expansion of the textile industry, on the ground that it would conflict with the ministry's "wear more khadi" program. Recently in the Madras legislature he supported bills prohibiting horse racing and juvenile smoking...