Word: interdict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor of decontamination. Fire hoses will do a lot of good (if there is water), and shielded street-sweeping machines (not yet devised) will brush the contaminated asphalt. Heavy rain (if rain falls) will carry some of the deadly dust down the rivers to the sea. At last the interdict will be raised, and people can go about their ordinary business, avoiding dangerous areas and conscious that even in the safer places they are still receiving a considerable input...
...Martin's rang, and the bell of St. Mary's answered. Inns and taverns were pillaged, books were torn to shreds, some of the university halls were fired. The situation grew so serious that King Edward III himself intervened, and the city was placed under interdict. But by that time, 60 scholars had already been killed. Relations between town and gown have never been entirely amicable since...
...dogma. He "carried his message to the people" in talks on the Boston Common and in books. When he ignored Archbishop Cushing's order to be silent in 1949, he was deprived of his priestly functions and expelled from the Jesuit Society, and St. Benedict's was placed under interdict...
Actually, Feeney had been deprived of his rights as a priest when he was defrocked in 1949. The interdict barred all Catholics from frequenting the Center under penalty of forfeiting the right to receive the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. Feeney ignored this ban and declared his right to "wear the Roman collar and teach the true faith...
Operation Mainbrace, the NATO sea exercise (TIME, Sept. 22), ran into foul weather off the Norwegian coast last week. The allied fleets broke off operations in the north, headed south into Kiel Bay to interdict a simulated enemy attack across the Kiel Canal into Denmark. Since the east end of the canal is only 40 miles from the East German frontier, Mainbrace's planes were unarmed and the pilots were sternly warned to avoid Soviet territory...