Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sabotage, for the first time in any U.S. war, is classified as a military secret. Whether this far-from-clarified taboo serves to withhold "aid & comfort" from the enemy is debatable, but it has succeeded in creating the erroneous impression that sabotage in this war, unlike World War I, is virtually nonexistent...
...Dayton correspondents were allowed to describe in detail a .50-caliber machine gun. Two days later, at an ordnance plant, no mention was allowed of the caliber of cartridges for these same guns. In two other plants mention of the guns' caliber became taboo...
...Long Armistice. During "the Long Armistice" between World Wars I & II, Author Tabouis broke the taboo that kept French women out of journalism, became League of Nations correspondent for two powerful provincial papers. She arrived for the fifth annual session, together with President Herriot, Gustav Stresemann, Ramsay MacDonald. Said one diplomat: "It is just like Deauville during the summer season...
Gloomy Sunday is a 120-year-old tradition in Mississippi. An 1822 blue law still forbids Mississippians to attend bearbaiting, cockfights, bullfights and any other routine amusements of a Sabbath. Sunday movies are taboo-to the intensified boredom of some 110,000 soldiers training in the State. They wander aimlessly up & down the dead, empty streets of Mississippi towns, honing for something to do, and usually finding it only in honky-tonks and back-street bordellos...
...respectively, the social, economic and political problems of the post-war world and the problem of the church's own position in that world.* Discussion waxed hot & heavy, with one notable silence: in a week when the Japs were taking Java, discussion of the war itself was practically taboo. Reason: The Federal Council felt that, since five of its other commissions are directly connected with the war effort, the conference's concern should be with plans for peace. One war statement -"the Christian Church as such is not at war" -was proposed by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison...