Word: interdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenman said last night that he had been put under HCUA interdict preventing him from further campaigning and that he therefore thought it most prudent to decline comment. He was on his way to Lamont and was still wearing his carnation...
...naval base, the Archbishop squelched a proposal to build a gambling casino and censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia. For "grave offenses against ecclesiastical authorities," the Archbishop put the Labor Party's entire leadership under interdict (denying them confession, communion or consecrated burial), made it a mortal sin for a Catholic to support the Socialists...
...aside boisterous elements (such as Dogberry) and work at the problem of the swift, witty female (like Beatrice). What resulted was Rosalind, who spends much of her time, however, disguised as a boy. (But one must recall that, in Elizabethan times, such an idea was more plausible, for the interdict against women on the stage meant that female roles were played by boys anyway.) Shakespeare also tossed in court Fool (Touchstone) and misfit (Jaques)--both only partially successful...