Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shores to monitor missile launchings), the committee had promised it would not disclose any details if Ford decided that their release would jeopardize national security. Then the committee voted 9 to 4 to renege on the promise, reasoning that no one in the Executive Branch had the right to censor a report from a congressional committee...
...another person is a slob. If someone smokes and gets cancer, we say, 'Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...often seems close to despair. Months pass before letters cross the Atlantic: some are lost and some are destroyed. And there is her husband's constant fear that one will fall into the hands of the British and be used as propaganda, which leads him to caution her to censor what she writes. Yet throughout, the respect the two hold for each other never diminishes...
...Family, TV's No. 1 show last season in its 8 p.m. slot on Saturdays, has been moved to Monday at 9 p.m. Lear has been told that most of last year's episodes were not family fare. Rhoda, scheduled for family time, is feeling the censor's breath. Says Rhoda Executive Producer Allan Burns: "Rhoda and Joe may give the impression that although they are newlyweds, sex is a thing of the past." Another family-time show, M*A*S*H, has for the first time in three years had trouble with the word virgin...
Charade's End. The pledge ostensibly ended the subtle charade that foreign reporters had concocted to evade the government's jerry-built censorship. For a month some overseas journalists in New Delhi had escaped the censor's leaden fist by telephoning or telexing their copy direct to their home offices, or by flying out of the country to file from Beirut or Bangkok and then flying back a few days later. The Indian government, while it barred distribution of some foreign publications like TIME and Newsweek, tolerated the practice...