Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, fair-minded Censor Byron Price seconded Clyde Reed. Said he: "It is more important to me than to any Senate committee to find out who was faithless enough to violate these confidences...
Harlow Shapley, famed Harvard astronomer, said that hereafter technical communications between Cambridge and Harvard's big observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, must be phrased in ordinary instead of scientific language. A censor might be difficult about such messages as: "Nova explosion Puppis shoot nightly using whole battery: 08095 13512 Urgent." This means: "Make systematic observations of bright new star in constellation Puppis near star Zeta using all telescopes...
...statement to which the Secretary of State referred was made by Tom Dewey in a New York City speech last fortnight (TIME, April 3): "When we find the State Department requesting the British censor to suppress political news sent to American papers by American correspondents abroad, it begins to amount to a deliberate and dangerous policy of suppression of the news at home...
...month-old story, finally released by the censor last week, suggested how much the Allies tried to do at Anzio with how little. The story, by the Montreal Star's Sholto Watt, described the exploits of a unique unit of mixed Canadian and U.S. troops, known unfavorably to the Germans as the men "with funny pants and dirty faces...
About Enough. A Grand Island, Neb. sailor wrote home from overseas: "We asked the censor and he said it was all right to tell you that we are at (deleted by censor). That is about all I can tell you, though." Dodger. On Kwajalein Atoll, marines prepared to dynamite a stubborn dugout when a Jap ran out yelling, "Don't shoot! I've got a brother in Brooklyn...