Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fever in Australia 30 years ago. Back in Britain after a good recovery, he almost forgot it-until last year, when his three children got sick and Taylor was found to be a male "Typhoid Mary." Fired from his job as a batman at an infantry school, Taylor was forbidden to get near food intended for others, found his employment card marked in warning red, could not get a job. Last month he agreed to the standard operation that too many typhoid carriers refuse (though it does not always work)-removal of the gall bladder. Last week, pronounced typhoid free...
...confer regularly with 24 consultants, and if a book is found to be contrary to Catholic faith and morals, nine cardinals review their findings. Together, the three groups form the Holy Office's book-censoring department, and on their recommendation the Pope places works on the Index of Forbidden Books. So far, John XXIII has not Indexed any; Pius XII placed 23 authors on the list, including Jean Paul Sartre, Andre Gide and Alberto Moravia...
West Germany is still forbidden by treaty to produce ABC weapons (atomic, bacteriological and chemical warfare). But restrictions are being relaxed to permit German-made short-range antitank rockets. Naval training vessels are no longer limited to 3,000 tons. Germans may soon be allowed to manufacture antiaircraft rockets as well...
...must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will have a radio-but one that cannot pick up Moscow or Cairo. Reading material is forbidden him. Burning Spear may never address a meeting or join any organization. Though he is a spent man, his power to arouse his fellow blacks is still respected by the British, who are taking no chances...
...months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying...