Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victorian era and reflect the political power of various church groups. One cannot even deduce from the existence of abortion laws that a majority of the voters, even a majority of enlightened voters, oppose abortion; and the wise money would probably bet that the things that we shall be forbidding in fifty years will differ substantially from the things we forbid...
...difference between black-market crimes and most others, like racketeering and robbery, is that they are "crimes" only because we have legislated against the commodity they provide. We single out certain goods and services as harmful or sinful; for reasons of history and tradition, and for other reasons, we forbid dope but not tobacco, gambling in casinos but not on the stockmarket, extra-marital sex but not gluttony, erotic but not mystery stories. We do it for reasons different from those behind the laws against robbery and tax evasion...
...proposes that the Court create a special commission to conduct the study -- the results of which could have wide-ranging repercussions. And at the same time, the Court should, according to McCormack, forbid all executions -- not death sentences -- during the life of such a commission...
...Defense Department now reminds subjects of their Fifth Amendment right to silence and requires their written consent before using the lie box. In private industry, labor arbitrators usually bar firing when evidence of wrongdoing is based solely on lie-detector tests or refusal to take them. New laws also forbid the tests as a condition of employment in six states (Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington). J. Edgar Hoover calls the name lie detector "a complete misnomer" because the gaugers are totally incapable of "absolute judgments." And the current state of the art suggests that Texans and others...
...pain of disbarment or jail for contempt, the A.B.A. proposals would forbid police, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judicial employees to make any out-of-court statement on the accused's prior criminal record or make public other information that might influence the outcome of his trial. The blackout would cover the entire period from arrest to verdict-a period that sometimes lasts for years...