Word: embargoed
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...this is true, shouldn't there be an embargo upon such things as Swiss cheese, Brussels sprouts, French peas, Turkish cigarets and Old Dutch Cleanser? Surely these are more dangerous and insidious than mere crosses and ribbons. If I wear the order of the Golden Fleece, it never comes in actual contact with my body, being separated thereby by my Scotch Tweed Weskit and one, perhaps, neutralizes the evil of the other...
...total embargo against frozen meat which keeps Argentine chops and steaks off U. S. platters...
...Munich, an embargo was placed upon the importation of parrots into Bavaria...
...Angeles, all pet stores and recently purchased birds were quarantined. In Chicago, one Ben Plonski tried to get rid of an annoying parrot by telling health officers that the bird was "a psittacosis menace to the community." In Manhattan, City Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne declared an embargo on parrot shipments from South America, advised parrot owners to wash their hands thoroughly after touching their birds...
...Lifting of Japan's embargo on gold...