Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightclubs must still tread warily to get around the licensing laws, which forbid liquor sales after 11 p.m. The commonest dodge is the "bottle party" (invented some 14 years ago), which provides that, for a year's fee of about ?3, guests sign an invitation list and a wine order. This permits signers to "invite themselves" to the club and drink liquor ostensibly purchased and owned by them, but kept on the premises...
Since the Armistice terms forbid Italians to commit hostile acts against citizens of the United Nations, Signor Mollica published his challenge in the Roman press, hoped that the Soviet Embassy would relay it promptly. When a U.S. newshawk called to ask questions, Signor Mollica snapped to attention, clicked his heels and asked politely: "Do you represent Signor Vishinsky...
...possible that . . . 1) my Midwest mathematics have me confused, or 2) our good neighbors to the south use a different method of census taking, or 3) (Heaven Forbid) TIME'S reporter has erred...
Staid Argentines, whose daughters still may not date without chaperones, could hardly be expected to swallow all this without an occasional harrumph. One oppositionist deputy introduced a bill in Congress to forbid public activity by officials' wives. Earlier this month, naval cadets coughed so pointedly during a newsreel of Evita that their Peronist C.O. saw fit to expel over 20 of them. But the Argentine-in-the-street likes...
...enough, the board announced a proposed new regulation which would declare any carrier which makes more than ten trips a month between any two points to be a scheduled operator. This was just what the big airlines, the "scheduled carriers," had asked the board to do. CAB would also forbid all nonscheduled lines from flying outside the U.S. other than to Canada, Alaska or Mexico. The Board will listen to objections to the new regulations. But most airmen knew that the Board's final actions do not often differ much from its "proposals...