Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of the facts soon showed that Joe McCarthy's blockade was as phony as it was irregular. A whole series of recent moves by the governments of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Greece and other countries practically prohibit their ships from trading with Communist China. Just last week, after long negotiations with the U.S., the Greek government decreed that Greek-flag ships will not sail to Communist Chinese ports...
...member nations solemnly agreed to prohibit the export of strategic materials to Chinese mainland ports. The catch is in the meaning of "strategic." The U.S. regards all materials shipped to China as useful to the enemy, and therefore strategic; others, still clinging to the moneymaking proposition that China is "the land of 400 million customers," are much less thoroughgoing. Britain embargoes "military" items (e.g., aircraft engines and gasoline), but permits such "civilian" exports as automobiles, chemicals, textile machinery. The Tory government even allows Peking to buy antibiotics...
...South Africa's laws whenever he may consider that "public safety" demands it. The law would allow the government-and Swart specifically-to proclaim a state of emergency throughout South Africa, or in any part of it, and then suspend all civil rights, censor or suspend the press, prohibit public assembly, confiscate property, search and seize, create concentration camps. Swart could keep the emergency measures in force indefinitely, simply by renewing the proclamation...
...time Lowenstein was called into service Coach Lloyd Jordan explained that Ivy League eligibility rules would prohibit Lowenstein's playing for the Crimson after his discharge...
...showing is open to all undergraduates and their dates, with a prominently-displayed bursar's card the only prerequisite for admission. University fire relations prohibit smoking, however...