Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mental illness or retardation, or combinations of these handicaps. Several of the children had to be sent to institutions for the mentally retarded. Since no safe and effective treatment for thallium poisoning has yet been perfected, doctors say that the only way to protect children against it is to forbid completely the use of thallium sulfate in preparations for household...
...United States--these principles are just as vital as, and more intimately affect, the welfare of every man, woman, and child in America than even such important questions as foreign policy and all other serious questions which we face today, important as those issues are. May God forbid that your respective states and mine, our counties, our cities, our farms, and our businesses shall ever be subject to Washington bureaucratic police rule...
...with indiscretion, taped a TV interview for NBC. He was sure that no pro football player would ever try to fix a game. But, personally, he enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never bet more than a pack of cigarettes or a couple of cigars," he said. A lie-detector test? Sure. "If I lied, the way I'm built...
Kaiser's trouble at Córdoba was symptomatic of what makes U.S. investors nervous about Latin America. Country after country is troubled by rampant inflation and other economic ills. But in dustry cannot pare its production or its heavily-featherbedded payrolls because left-leaning unions forbid it, and floundering local governments do not dare object because they need union support to stay in office. The result has been a radical cutback of investment in Latin America at a time when the Kennedy Administration urges an Alliance for Progress in the two continents. Where their net investment averaged...
...just make out the automatic lady in the Widener Room reciting her litany of shipwreck and bookish treasure to yet another tourist. She stood secure as any beadsman, knowing that no Philistine administrator would ever violate her walls or blot out her sun. The Widener deed of gift would forbid such ignoble intrusions upon the Room, and even the new addition could fill the court only as high as her window sills...