Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority to suspend most of South Africa's laws whenever he may consider that "public safety" demands it. The law would allow the government-and Swart specifically-to proclaim a state of emergency throughout South Africa, or in any part of it, and then suspend all civil rights, censor or suspend the press, prohibit public assembly, confiscate property, search and seize, create concentration camps. Swart could keep the emergency measures in force indefinitely, simply by renewing the proclamation...
...commonplace rut and place him in another frame of existence. Neither are there characters on the stage who would exist only in an author's well-constructed, never-existent world. To do this, Mr. Inge would have to be an artist. Instead, he is a talented censor, able to sort and to rearrange the various trivia of living, conversation and action, combining a significant grouping of these, to create an excellent reproduction...
...mailing this letter from our neighboring country, for, if it were mailed here, it would fall into the hands of the censor...
During the 18 months he was chief censor and public information officer for the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, 50, had more than a military interest in the coverage of the war. A veteran newsman himself (during World War II left as editor of the now defunct Tacoma Times), Reservist Voorhees kept a file on how the correspondents were covering the war. He shipped his notes home to his wife, who passed them on to a publisher. This week, for his extracurricular writing, Voorhees 1) had a brand-new book, Korean Tales (Simon & Schuster...
Take today's case. The University showing of Birth had scarcely been announced when the rumble that terrorized the Boston City Censor last year, started again. City Hall got some phone calls. Just a few, but they were enough to stir spectres of domestic insurrection--or at least political repercussions--in the minds of civic authorities. As a result, the City Fathers say they must make sure opposition will not be violent before they license tonight's showing...