Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moslems are also forbidden by their religion to drink alcohol. Last week the West Punjab provincial government decreed complete prohibition for all Moslems. Non-Moslems can be exempted by applying for a special drinking permit costing 5 rupees a year. A loophole in the law makes the drinking permits available to those Moslems who can present doctors' certificates saying that they are "alcohol addicts...
...stands now, doctors are forbidden to give advice even though it in no way runs counter to their own moral or religious convictions or that of their patients. If the bill were passed, no one would be obliged to seek or receive contraceptive information. It would only allow that woman who does not believe that contraception is against God's law to procure the advice from her physician which might save her life or preserve her health...
...Sciences, has declared that the genetics of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms) is the only genetics that may be taught in Soviet institutions. The Morgan-Mendelian theory (that heredity is controlled by genes in the cells), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., has been forbidden and its adherents disciplined...
...which sounded like "shmoooooooooooo!", his eager pursuit of the lilting sound was barred by an amazon of fierce and busty aspect. ("Ah sees to it," said she, "that th' shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos, mah boy, is the greatest menace to hoo-manity th' world has ever known...
...wife with a weak heart. After the war the Ministry of Labor rated Alfred as "unemployable." Four times he had applied for a permit to open a pastry shop in Bedhampton, to which he had moved. Four times he had been refused. Opening of new pastry shops was strictly forbidden because of the shortage of fats, flour and sugar...