Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most prosperous. Last year, from the S.M.U. and 87 other campaigns, the company grossed $600,000. In 1943, A.C.B. rounded up pledges for $440,103,451, probably got more in 1944. To do this, it employed 60 pleasantly efficient male organizers and publicists. (Professional women organizers are usually taboo. Most volunteer workers are women, will not take orders from other women...
...loudest drums ever beaten on the once taboo topic of venereal disease were pummeled last week by the War Advertising Council. Launching a new poster campaign with the slogan HIDDEN ENEMY-V.D., the Council appealed to U.S. advertisers to unite in a nationwide drive against syphilis and gonorrhea...
Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
Ethel Mannin, blurtaceous English novelist (Sounding Brass, South to Samarkand), deplored as "stupid and cruel" the taboo against unmarried mothers. Said she, to the London Society for Sex Education and Guidance:* "A child can't be legal or illegal. It's there...
Forbidden News. The A.P. was not the only collector of data on "Jumbo" Wilson's censorship. Other details leaked out. All Balkan stories having political implications had to be sent to Cairo, and Cairo's British censor was notoriously heavyhanded. On Cairo's official taboo list: any story about the National Liberation Front inside Greece; full reports on the Jewish-Arab question...