Word: omitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper shortage must be acute for you to omit eight of the 58 letters (gyll, w and dro) from the big name of the little town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch* (TIME, Jan. 15). ... Llanfair P.G. [is the] usual form for postal authorities and people in a hurry...
...There is no such thing as Freedom of the Press for the publisher of a country newspaper. . . . His readers do not want a free press. They want a tactful press. . . . In the past few weeks my newspaper has considered it wise to omit at least a half dozen top local news stories, although the facts were common gossip. To have printed these items would have cost me friends and money. . . . Stories which would cost me friends and money would in a short time put me out of business...
...Editions' 21st volume, a stirring story of an escape from the Nazis, is the first to be published in liberty, the first to omit the defiant inscription of its predecessors: "Ce volume, publié aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes, a été achevé d'imprimer sous l'oppression a Paris" ("This book, published with the aid of certain patriots of literature, has been printed under the oppression in Paris...
...writing to you in order to call your attention to the fact that Stephen, Robert, and David are my three sons as well as the sons of Harry L. Hopkins, confidential adviser to President Roosevelt. In all your news items and stories you either completely omit this fact or state it incorrectly...
...Nazis' 6 p.m. curfew on Rome forced Pope Pius XII to omit his customary midnight Mass, substitute a private Mass...