Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heaven forbid someone should ask you forchange," Austin says. From his perspective,Cambridge is one of the safest places in the cityand he is still surprised that people here are so"uptight" about security...
According to Lewis, similar proposals to forbid smoking within the Houses has been raised twice in the past. He cited health concerns--for smokers, potential smokers and their roommates--as the impetus behind the potential...
...past, House masters have argued that allowing students back on campus with too much time before classes will only result in raucous parties. Heaven forbid that such social behavior should take place on these hallowed grounds...
...America, I simply took for granted--until I saw Marcia Lewis psychologically strip-searched last week on what she knows about the sex life of her daughter Monica Lewinsky--that the government could not compel me to testify before a grand jury about my daughter Courtney. Or, God forbid, vice versa. Courtney's led a fairly blameless life, after all. But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff...
...awkward category. We met them in some situation that we would either like to forget or believe that all normal people have already forgotten, and we therefore aren't allowed to talk to them. And after avoiding eye contact with them for a year or more, unwritten rules forbid us from ever smiling at them again--and we would never in a million years think of asking them their names or reminding them of ours...