Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found that nine out of ten migrant children fail to keep up with school work, and repeat grades. Dr. Robert Coles, of the Harvard School of Public Health, has summarized the consequences of child farm labor: "When a child is ten, he ceases to be a child." UFW contracts forbid child labor, while providing wages and benefits that allow a family to survive without...
Most important, don't let members of the team itself know any of this. They might actually start thinking they're really good. They might lose that fighting spirit that comes with being the underdog. Heaven forbid, they might become overconfident...
...there is one serious problem: all the lotteries may well be illegal. U.S. law appears to forbid the use of the mails or federally chartered banks in running lotteries. Attorney General William Saxbe, who is not opposed to lotteries but wants to uphold the letter of the law, recently summoned officials from the 13 states to Washington and served notice that within 90 days they must either petition Congress to exempt the lotteries from federal law or face court action. Congress has stalled on similar proposals 30 times in the past ten years. Failing a congressional move, lottery officials will...
...does not forbid the alternation or destruction of items in student files. The University then has the option, Steiner said, to excise material from student folders. Steiner said that since a moral question is raised by the presence of materials written with the assumption of confidentiality, the matter of altering files is one under discussion...
CAROLE Shelley is here an admirable Viola--sprightly, intelligent, and a model of sanity in a world of absurdity. Her diction is clean, and her handling of the "Fortune forbid" soliloquy is particularly distinguished. But there is more beauty in the "damask cheek" speech than she is yet able to convey. (Siobhan McKenna's portrayal remains the yardstick for this part, as for Shaw's Saint Joan and others.) The plausibility of confusion between Viola-Cesario and Sebastian is helped here through Donald Warfield's soft, rather womanly portrayal of the brother (a role once played by a 19-year...