Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One bitter Moslem woman recalls: "As I entered my husband's House of Obedience, he began to take revenge. He used to order me to stand naked most of the night, and beat me." The House of Obedience was the most important but not the only feminist objection to...
In the House of Lords, Earl Winterton raised a practical objection: "I do not think the Primate can have thought very carefully over the results of his action. If this law was put into operation, there would be at least another thousand people in prison. I do not want to...
In making the loan, the bank ignored the objection of the Israeli government that Cairo does not allow its ships to pass freely through the canal.* For a time after the Suez invasion, the Egyptians allowed Israeli cargoes to go through in ships flying the flags of other nations. Then...
On the bulletin boards of some papers appeared fresh drafts of Christmas-gift policy. The New York Times in its memo solemnly advised its staff against keeping "gifts of substantial value," a qualification so vague that when Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein was pressed for specific proscriptions, he could only...