Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done great deeds, but it has also made mistakes owing to the drunkenness of victory and the conceit resulting from its great achievements. It has wrongly assessed its own powers, exaggerated its own importance and given insufficient attention to the roles played by other national forces." Furthermore, the Communist paper itself has "dealt in an inflammatory manner with certain events." Just so everybody would understand its previous "wrong assessment," the Central Committee now assured everyone that "the party condemns all draggings, torture, pillage...
...substituted SAVED DE VALERA FROM THE FIRING SQUAD. London's lip-smacking The People last week shelved a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a two-piece bathing suit, substituted one of the triple wedding of some County Mayo girls. Says a Dublin newsman: "When you see an English paper writing about Lourdes or the Irish saints, you can bet that the space in home editions was filled with i WAS A TEEN-AGE SEX MANIAC...
...nice," to city editors, who generally accept all "conventions," do not think of them as actual censorship. All of which has led to an adage that pretty accurately describes the Irish press: "It doesn't matter what happens, as long as it doesn't get into the paper...
...this might have endured forever had not West Pakistan's Governor Akhtar Husain paid a visit to Quetta and looked around in vain for a daily paper. For his embarrassed hosts, who laid out Quetta's nine weeklies as a substitute, Husain had a proposal beautiful in its simplicity: "Why not come out on different days of the week so that Quetta has a fresh paper every...
...Pilot, Boston's official Catholic weekly, Bishop Lord's questions were "ridiculous," and to show why, the paper addressed a few contentious questions of its own to a possible Methodist candidate. Samples...