Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian National Congress has been to introduce prohibition throughout India-as a demonstration that Indians can rule themselves as well as control themselves. British officials have opposed prohibition because liquor excise taxes have recently contributed 25% of provincial revenues. Besides, they say, why prohibit something which is already taboo? But last August the Congress Cabinet of the Bombay Presidency (pop. 26,400) prevailed, and put prohibition into effect...
Brothels are taboo in Miami Beach because 1) they are bad for the home trade, and 2) there are plenty just across the bay in Miami. Gambling flourished until 1936. Then Levi & Co. concluded that gambling racketeers were also bad for business, banged down the lid on everything except one legalized dog-track (which pays the city $50 a day during the season...
Great Britain, like the rest of warring Europe, has had a strict taboo since war began on the broadcasting of weather news, because of its likely value to enemy airmen. But last week frosty Sir John Reith, press-dodging boss of Britain's censors, melted sufficiently to let BBC tell the world a bit about British weather.* Said the BBC newscaster to folks at home & abroad: "We have been having the coldest spell for 46 years. Actually, it began a fortnight before Christmas. . . . London one day had 25 degrees of frost. The Thames was frozen over . . . from Teddington...