Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Formerly known to thousands of pleasure-lovers as the Dartmouth Carnival, the yearly orgy of sports, wine, and women has been tamed by college officials and most of the glamorous features have been declared taboo...
Immediately, from the right, from the left, and from behind came a barrage of evil, malavolent stares. Not one of the looks was backed up with a voice, but I had a feeling that I had desecrated something holy, that I had violated the Saturday afternoon taboo of the fourth estate by making an enthusiastic noise. From that point on I followed my own example of the first three quarters and desisted...
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...Germany two and a half centuries ago, the Mennonites have farmed the rich land of Lancaster County, Pa. They are simple folk, and simplicity is the heart of their religion. They do not believe in war or violence. The strictest Mennonites do not believe in self-decoration; buttons are taboo, and so are pictures. They do not believe in getting mixed up with their nonbelieving neighbors...
...last year Japan has begun again to withdraw into its hermit shell. English signs have been taken down. American films have been banned. Cabarets have been closed. Foreign clothes have become taboo for Japanese women. Even baseball has been Japanofied, with Japanese phrases substituted for such terms as "home run " "foul" and "kill the umpire" and with all bats made of bamboo. But last week Japan's xenophobes ran into a linguistic stone wall. Trying to enforce a new language law, designed to purify Japanese of foreign words, authorities found that English words had become deeply embedded...