Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the tournament, no wrestlers from 15 colleges earnestly tried to tear each other apart-within carefully prescribed limits. College rules forbid bending opponent's fingers, holding his nose, gouging his eyes, strangling him, or in any way causing him unnecessary pain and inconvenience. Nevertheless, the boys succeeded in getting tangled up (see cuts...
...gabby as ever but no longer so leftish. At 23, as political mascot to Old Liberal Lloyd George, Owen had been Parliament's youngest member. At 32, he had left the Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
...Long Island Railroad put a serious restriction on the card-playing commuter. It ordered its employees to forbid card players to hold places for a foursome when other passengers had no seats. That just about meant the end of rush-hour bridge and pinochle...
...decorated by Dave Tough's exotic drumming. Joe Sullivan's piano solo on the second chorus of "Honey Suckle Rose" is an imaginative recollection of Fats Waller and "Wild Bill" ploughs a safe and sane path through the final chorus of "Sentimental Baby." It almost sounds as if, God forbid, he was reading it off a score, there are so few sour notes...
Another difficulty--and one in which University Hall has interested itself--is the state of the Advocate building. After the magazine folded, the grey Bow Street building was rented, in deference to the war-time housing shortage, in apartment lots to both married and unmarried tanants. Stringent OPA restrictions forbid the eviction of otherwise homeless tenants, and the University would probably veto the occupancy by students of a mixed-tenancy building...