Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration. But radicals like Davis (who are, at heart, only the lost children of the ACLU) still fondly imagine that under crisis conditions the Constitution continues to define and limit acceptable law enforcement procedures. They believe that the Bill of Rights-at least on paper-can somehow forbid the police state. In fact, ever since Abraham Lincoln saddled the country with martial law in 1861, the courts have set precious few constitutional limits on riot control and have dumbly excused almost all the emergency powers of government...
...four resolutions would create a committee to study Gulf's involvement in Portuguese Africa; require disclosure of Gulf's charitable gifts; expand the Board of Directors to increase the influence of "various interests and constituencies affected by the activities of the Corporation"; and forbid Gulf to maintain investments in colonial areas...
...free-fire zones are no answer to a local insurgency, and they are aghast at how badly U.S. technology and firepower have ravaged the countries they were supposed to save. Says the Philippines' Marcos: "I articulate what most of the nations feel-and what is that? Heaven forbid that war should come to their countries, and heaven forbid that the U.S. should duplicate what it has done in South Viet Nam if that war should come to our country...
...single strand of pearls reiterating the circular lines of her tiny waist and a single red ruby dropping from the pearls; the portrait was not nearly as risque as others that Sargent was painting at the time, but when Jack Gardner heard the comments about the picture, he forbid its public exhibition. The gossip was that, "Sargent had painted Mrs. Gardner all the way down to Crawford's Notch...
...forbid Gulf to maintain investments in colonial areas...