Word: forbidding
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...just make out the automatic lady in the Widener Room reciting her litany of shipwreck and bookish treasure to yet another tourist. She stood secure as any beadsman, knowing that no Philistine administrator would ever violate her walls or blot out her sun. The Widener deed of gift would forbid such ignoble intrusions upon the Room, and even the new addition could fill the court only as high as her window sills...
Swimmers have been practicing on their own since September, but Ivy League rules forbid any direct coaching until November 1. Brooks wasted no time getting started yesterday. All afternoon he could be heard telling swimmers to "keep that head down" or "stop over-reaching with your left...
...House committees of Quincy and Leverett also approved plans for a candlelit supper in Leverett dining hall after the Yale game. Although fire regulations may forbid the candles, the social committee promises a bottle of wine for each couple and a jazz group to play during the dinner...
...constitution does not allow reasons of state to influence our judgement. God forbid it should! We must not regard political consequences, however formidable they might be; if rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say, Justitia fiat, ruat coelum-Let justice be done, though the heavens fall...
...directive was crudely explicit: it is increasingly evident, it said, that smoking is linked to cancer and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. There is hardly any doubt that the Surgeon General has jurisdiction to issue such an order; clearly, it could not forbid smoking itself or the buying of cigarettes, but just as clearly, it is free to control the handouts that it feels might disturb the health of the Air Force...