Word: censorable
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...report of the rush of volunteers to Finland past the French censor, the Paris bureau of the New York Times executed a neat journalistic backhand...
From this poilu's note, the censor of Secteur Postal 390 had excised not a line...
...German censor proudly released the war's most perfect picture, taken by a U-boat commander, of a torpedoed freight er doing her last curtsy...
...charge of censorship Vargas put young Civis Muller, an officer of Brazil's Federal District Police. Censor Muller, ambitious, fond of authority, but with no newspaper experience whatever, issued a series of exacting regulations, some of them virtually impossible to obey, put censors in every Brazilian editor's office, large or small, in the offices of such foreign news agencies as United Press, Associated Press, Britain's Reuter's, France's Havas, Germany's Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau...
...says he slipped one over on the bewildered censors, who tapped his wires and took his conversations down on records, but were never quite quick enough to catch him in the act of spilling beans. Finally they told him: "So sorry. Weather no longer suitable for Japan-America transoceanic telephoning." When he complained, even the Foreign Office said it could not improve the weather. So Wilfrid Fleisher cabled the Tribune to telephone him from Manhattan each day. America-Japan weather seemed fine, and for a while, he says, the new system had the censor completely baffled...