Word: outlawful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of Oxford economists opposed Bretton Woods because it "tended to outlaw discriminatory practices" held to be necessary in Britain's desperate debtor position. The Beaverbrook papers criticized Bretton Woods as a return to an inflexible gold standard. Sharpest attacks came from a "young Tory" M.P., Robert John Graham Boothby, once Churchill's private secretary, who charged that advocates interpreted Bretton Woods as the gold standard in the U.S. and as a flexible system in Britain. With all the weight of his authority, Lord Keynes called Bretton Woods "the exact opposite of the gold standard...
When Sitting Bull's outlaw Sioux massacred General George Custer and five troops of the 7th Cavalry on the Little Big Horn, the U.S. rumbled with indignation. Amid all the furore the Army brass was struck by a wonderful idea-since it was almost impossible to catch mounted Sioux, why not take away their horses...
...because it passeth all understanding." For this attack the Government had Wilkes arrested and his house rifled on a general warrant, which violated his civil rights. Then Wilkes, against all parliamentary precedent, was not allowed to avoid prosecution by pleading parliamentary privilege. Bolting to France, he was declared an outlaw by the Government, but acclaimed a hero by the mob. "Wilkes and Liberty" became a national outcry...
Since 1870 many a U.S. campus has been afflicted with the approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control student governments, campus newspapers, fraternity memberships and prom lists, in flagrant defiance of faculty edicts...
There followed those acts "short of war": cash & carry, Lend-Lease, the 50 destroyers and one million rifles to help Britain save herself after Dunkirk; the peacetime draft; the declaration of "emergency," the branding of Germany as an "international outlaw" in June...