Word: blue-penciled
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...Lankan rebel) 27. Superstar who's reuniting with his dad 31. 1996 Olympic torch lighter 32. Subject of a 1773 protest 33. U.N. working-conditions agency 34. Congressman who introduced a bill to ease sanctions on Iraq 37. Bob __ IV, author of a World article panning McCain 39. Blue-pencil 40. Send to the Hill 41. Spoils __ 44. J.D.'s org. 45. Bush, in Doonesbury 46. Many CEOs 48. Web master's creation 52. Project completion? 53. Some choir members 54. Barbra's A Star Is Born co-star 55. Kerrey is leaving the Senate to head the __ School University...
...classic Agatha Christie fashion, nearly everybody in Elaine's had motives to blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics of hard-drugging Rolling Stone Writer Hunter Thompson and a freelancer named Rosenbaum-has much to do with Watergate. Many journalists consider that scandal their calling's finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought...
...press confab last year Harry Truman wished aloud: "The thing I'd like to do if I ran a newspaper would be the telegraph editor and the blue-pencil man. And then I'd sure get what I wanted in the paper!" In Miami last week Harry got his wish, muffed his opportunity. Invited by the Miami Herald's Republican Publisher John S. Knight to try out a blue pencil, Truman accepted, but first he visited the Democratic-angled afternoon News, where he sat at the telegraph editor's desk and did little but doodle...
...Price to investigate all the Air Force manuals. The Air Force started its own investigation, named its deputy chief, General Curtis LeMay, who has better things to do, to lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...
...Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was ruled off the international air in Moscow" for "tampering" with Khrushchev's lines in his famed kitchen debate with Nixon at the American exhibition-a charge that the U.S. State Department promptly rejected...