Word: taboos
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...first time since 1940, U.S. physicists could talk about atomic fission without looking over their shoulders. The subject of The Bomb itself was taboo at the annual midwest meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago; but there was plenty more for the atomic scientists to talk about...
...mellowing years have not relaxed all Mary's rigorous regal standards. She still will not receive a divorced person, not even her daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Windsor. David himself could not break down that royal taboo when he tried two months ago. Instead, Mama, whose own taste in hats leans to the conservative, made him change his sporty green porkpie for a sober bowler...
...substance, the Army's shortsighted orientation program has come home to roost. Five years of inviolate, incompetent officer rule spreading its vile propaganda of chauvinism and prejudice; five years of "controlled" forums and news services where all political topics were taboo . . . five years of pompously proclaiming to the world that our Armies were fighting for Four Freedoms, or Democracy, or Liberty, while the truth of the matter was that our men, given no better incentive, went into battle with only one thought in their minds: self-preservation and living long enough to get home again...
...almost as unheard-of as if a woman had been admitted to Greece's Mount Athos, where all females (even ewes and mares) are taboo. In Northampton, Mass. last week Smith College got its first male undergrad in its 70 years. The unique fellow was Meredith Stiles, blond and 23, veteran of 2½ years in the Army Air Forces. He was admitted to Smith because he wanted to study advanced Spanish, and the professor of advanced Spanish at his own school (nearby Amherst) was off on sabbatical leave...
...rarefied air of high office in U.S. industry has often been considered too thin for women to stand. Last week, the staid old Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) broke this antifeminine taboo. Into two of its five executive posts of assistant secretary it raised two ex-stenographers: brown-eyed, brown-haired Miss Muriel E. Reynolds, 42, and small (5 ft. i in.) Mrs. Margery M. Porter, also 42, who wears her brown hair in a feather cut. They are the first women ever to become corporate officers in mighty Standard...