Word: forbiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bitter Seadogs. British policy is to forbid "strategic trade" with the Chinese mainland (as required by the U.N. embargo), but to encourage as much non-strategic trade as possible, for, after all, business is business. The Royal Navy has orders to keep the sea lanes open, but British commercial vessels, even under Communist charter, are not allowed to be armed or to carry strategic cargo...
...says Pleasants, a Roman Catholic. On the one hand, "prevailing Catholic philosophy is almost sheer formalism, obedience to certain arbitrary prescriptions for the sake of an arbitrary reward . . . Where the formulae do not apply, the matter is of no real significance. Nothing new need be added. Formalism does not forbid creative activity-it just takes the heart...
...California's Stanford University the Cossets studied the U.S. technique of "dating," learning that college rules forbid alcohol, but that it is proper for a coed to drink beer from a paper cup off campus. In Las Vegas, Nev. the Cossets would not have been surprised to find doctors trying to keep their gambling-mad patients happy with slot machines...
Actually, although many governments forbid such markets, most of them wink at them, even participate in them, for the simple reason that without them much international trade would die. In Paris, for example, right after the Bourse's legal trading closes at 1:15 p.m., the "illegal" currency market opens on the balcony-with a uniformed policeman keeping order. Such markets have been so common in Europe that U.S. tourists took them for granted, exchanged their money on streets with ease. But this summer tourists are finding a big change. Except in France, the money black markets have...
Unlike the free-for-all of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Greco-Roman rules forbid use of the legs for attack or defense. That eliminates tripping, tackling, scissors grips and grapevine holds, and reduces wrestling to a grunting test of back, arms and shoulder strength. Popular in Europe, Greco-Roman leaves most Americans cold...