Word: censor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hanging] for 12 o'clock. Nothing remains to be done except to try him." At one point Shaw has him say, "You insolent-," breaking off after the adjective. Here Maher provides the noun "bastard"-which Shaw likely had in mind but could not have got by the stage censor...
...more than a sop to the regime's critics. Nearly 2,000 political prisoners are under arrest; last week about 40 of them were suddenly exiled to distant Aegean islands as security risks. Parliament remains shuttered, and parts of the constitution are still suspended. Newspapers are required to censor themselves, and their efforts do not always satisfy the colonels. Last month a military tribunal sentenced the editor and four staff members of the 57-year-old Athens daily Ethnos to prison for as long as five years for publishing "antinational propaganda...
...stuff" is flesh flicks, and the three middleaged, middle-class mothers constitute Maryland's defense against them. The last state to censor motion pictures in advance of distribution, Maryland pays the members of its Board of Motion Picture Censors between $4,000 and $4,500 a year each. In fiscal 1969, the trio previewed 687 movies, censored objectionable portions from 14, and rejected 59 outright. Half of those rejected were 8-mm. porno productions made on a shoestring, which is more than most of the performers wore. None of the disapproved films was produced by members of the Motion...
...Cato," the nom de plume of the early 18th century Whigs Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, who wrote Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious. Also for Cato the Censor, the Roman statesman. Publius, whose name was taken by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, was a Roman moralist of the 1st century...