Word: verboten
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...Dancing Verboten. Bordered in black to emphasize its importance, extra editions of the morning papers carried Warlord Hitler's proclamation to his troops...
This barrage was a counterbombardment. For the best-informed agency on Nazi treatment of German-occupied Poland (a land verboten to foreign correspondents) is the Catholic Church itself. And the Vatican's short-wave station had already broadcast penetrating reports of German persecution, compiled by Augustus Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, who had escaped to Rome 17 days after the invasion...
Five years ago, swish U. S. skiers would have muttered into their parkas if they had been forced to stay on their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead...
Since Adolf Hitler's victory inspection of bomb-shattered Warsaw last October, German-occupied Poland has been verboten to neutral correspondents. Only the meagerest details of how 19,000,000 people were faring at the hands of their new Nazi masters filtered through the news blackout to the outside world. The woeful experiences of escaped refugees, occasional off-the-record reportings of neutral consular agents, revelations of the Nazis themselves, have generally added up to the same thing...
...less naughty side of Bucharest serious politicians relax at famed Café Capsa. The big, swanky outdoor terrace of the Cercul Militar (Army Club), facing the Calea Victoriei, is filled nightly with resplendently uniformed officers and smartly turned-out women. Caviar, juicy steaks, pastries oozing with whipped cream-all verboten in many a war-nervous area-can be ordered to the tune of a gypsy orchestra. In the shops can be bought everything from U. S.-made toothpaste to the finest wines from the King's own vineyards...