Word: banning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the ban will affect "pinball machines," but not shuffleboard or miniature bowling games...
...also cited decisions by the Boston and Watertown Licensing Boards, which did not ban these "amusement" machines...
...young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler's Nazi coalition won a Reichstag majority for the first time, though even then the Nazis' share of the vote was only 43.9%. Thereafter Hitler was able to eliminate all opposition...
...questionable whether monolithic states or coalitions are slower to move, but the Geneva negotiations on a ban of nuclear tests provide heartening evidence that they can, and indeed do, occasionally move...
...course the West has never worried about gaining agreement to a cessation of tests but it has been concerned over Soviet willingness to accept a reasonably effective control system to police the ban. Compromise by both sides on their interpretation of the word "reasonable" has helped achieve agreement on this essential element...