Word: forbiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their power. Last week the Senate and the House passed and sent to President Eisenhower a bill that would apply stringent curbs. Directed at the 39 U.S. companies that control two or more banks apiece, the bill would make them get rid of all their nonbanking interests, and would forbid buying new banking properties without approval of the Federal Reserve Board. Primary purpose of the bill is to protect independent banks from the interstate branch-banking competition they cannot match...
...along. "He nearly killed us." Until recently, Pop used to jazz up meetings of the Red Bird Ski Club (which he helped to found) by standing on his head on the dinner table. "He'd do it still," says a Red Bird official, "if we didn't forbid...
...applied a magnificent twist. The deceitful and domineering husband has wife trouble. He openly flirts with his mistress, a teacher in a boarding school of which he is headmaster. His wife has money and she wants a divorce. This would be a bad thing. Propriety, and Madison Avenue, forbid further detail here...
Currently before the Massachusetts Senate is an attempt to freeze the recent outpouring of emotion over "jury-tapping" into legislation. The bill, like its national counterpart, would forbid projects such as the University of Chicago was conducting in the Wichita, Kansas, federal courts where secret tape recordings were made of juries in action as part of a study on how juries arrive at their decisions. The outcry looks like a crusade for the rights of man at first, but on closer scrutiny seems to be nothing more than a trompe d'oeil on the part of those who have made...
...help you win, and they misunderstand. It's not like that really. I feel that everything I do is for Him, and that includes wrestling." When a Bethlehem fan asks Ike for his autograph, he follows his signature with the words, Galatians 6:14 ("But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...