Word: censor
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...Boss (who roared like a cracked boiler after reading Lillian Smith's best-selling story of miscegenation, Strange Fruit) directed his city commissioners to set up a five-man board to censor literature...
...story has been a cause celebre in Portugal since the first copies of the July 22nd issue arrived there. The Government censor prohibited the distribution and sale of TIME, thus adding it to Portugal's long list of forbidden foreign publications. Police were ordered to confiscate all copies found in private hands and to record the names of their possessors...
...There was nothing to be done about the original editorial in the Japanese-language paper. That had already been distributed to 250,000 readers. But Censor Willoughby could find some comfort in its concluding words...
...commissioned an ensign, served ten months as a gunnery officer on Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. Later, in the Solomons, he nearly lost an arm when his jeep overturned. When he recovered he got a job as press censor at Sydney. Scripps-Howard tried to spring him out of the Navy after Ernie Pyle died; luckily for Ruark, he stayed in, and was spared the ordeal of trying to follow in Pyle's footsteps (TIME...
Father finally shocked Boston. The censor decided that the fuming head of the family in Life with Father must no longer cry, "Oh, God!"-though one Father or another had already sent the cry ringing through nearly 300 Boston performances...