Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taught his trade on the job (but General Devers was lucky: of all his laborers, only the plumbers had a union shop). Uncanny disasters twice hit the already insufficient water supply. On two different days, a million gallons unaccountably vanished from the reservoirs. General Devers twice had to forbid bathing, limit the use of toilets, conserve what water was left until the mysterious leakage stopped...
Eating. Everybody knows the timid, sluggish, clumsy, socially maladjusted type of fat child. Usually glandular disturbances have taken the blame. But Dr. Hilde Bruch of New York thinks that mollycoddling mothers are often the answer-mothers who forbid their children normal exercise and play for fear they will get hurt, who baby them beyond their needs and age. Such children do little, eat a lot because they have little else to do-a double promoter of obesity...
Germany's failure to cross the English Channel is the subject of many jokes in The Netherlands. Last September Commissioner Seyss-Inquart had to forbid the singing of Wir Fahren Gegen Engelland (We Are Sailing Against England) because small boys followed the singing German troops and on the three drumbeats between verse and chorus yelled: "Swim! Swim! Swim...
From Hitler's viewpoint the most dangerous aspect of Christian resistance is the refusal of thousands of churches, both Protestant and Catholic, to pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find...
...told that no one has yet proved it impossible to live in a totalitarian world. God forbid that we should wait until it is proved! The signers fail dismally to grasp the full significance of the Nazi thrust to us. For the record shows that Hitler will tolerate no obstacle to the expansion of the Nazi World Revolution. And we already know what Hitler thinks of democracies...