Word: prohibitively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such services as the submarine and air forces must be recruited on a volunteer basis, but "the national government may at some later time prohibit students with certain talents from enlisting," President Conant said...
Last week Guyer, Gaston and like-minded men & women throughout the land saw war move their goal closer. In Congress were a half-dozen bills to regulate alcohol traffic. One of them, a Senate resolution which would prohibit liquor sales in & around military establishments, could conceivably be used (by a Prohibitionist Secretary of War) to dry up whole areas of the nation...
...decree, suspending Article 14 of Argentina's Constitution (patterned after the U.S. Bill of Rights), gave Acting President Castillo unchallenged power to prohibit meetings, suppress newspapers, order arrests-but not to inflict punishment...
Although nothing has happened to cause undue alarm, the shortage of water in Cambridge is serious enough for the Cambridge water board to prohibit the washing of cars in filling stations and garages...
...publishers have cooperated in efforts to eliminate false advertising, but they view with alarm the Government's "using the term 'false advertising' as a mask with which to cloak a very evident desire to restrict or prohibit all advertising or to subject it to Government control...