Word: forbiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women to study at their college, although they were afraid to ask the state legislature to charter a co-educational university--that sort of thing just wasn't done in the East at the time. At any rate, they were careful to see that the charter did not specifically forbid co-education...
According to McMillan, Turner said, "Now, Doctor, the policy of the administration--that is, of the president--is to forbid any member of the staff to vilify the College or any sister institution in the State. If your book is of such a character, your case will be brought before the Trustee Board for action. Remember, now, Doctor McMillan, that you have a good job here at the College...
Nobody could be told, of course, for fear grandfather would forbid them to play with the baby, the way he had with the goats. So they kept it in a lean-to in a secret part of the woods, and fed it on stolen milk ("You got to wet its whistle," Harry explained, "near every hour of the day"), and changed its diaper the way Harry had seen his mother do with Davy. At night Harry slipped out of the window when everyone was asleep, and went to the lean-to "to protect [the baby] from the wolves...
Also Cough Syrup. In 1952 the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denounced Hoxsey's claims for his cancer tonic as "false and misleading," ordered the district judge in Dallas to forbid interstate sales and shipment of Hoxsey's bottled wares. (Hoxsey and his lawyers delayed the ban for 15 months.) Said the A.M.A.'s watchdog bureau of investigation: "The whole thing reeks of fraud." The American Cancer Society was even more emphatic: "There is nothing in his . . . medicine which has the slightest effect on cancer, except, according to one investigator, to stimulate its growth slightly...
...Commons speech, says, "Britain has a decisive role to play . . . That role is to civilize the power of America. Today Britain is the respected free nation in Southeast Asia, and I am afraid America is the discredited nation." Do they, the British, actually feel so smug? Wait until, God forbid, Hong Kong and Singapore...