All 16 Uses of
censor
in
Catch-22
- For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear conscience.†
Chpt 1censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR a person who does such suppression
- All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own.†
Chpt 1
- Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name.†
Chpt 1censored = removed or suppressed something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
- Catch-22 required that each censored letter bear the censoring officer's name.†
Chpt 1 *censoring = removing or suppressing something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
- Censoring the envelopes had serious repercussions, produced a ripple of anxiety on some ethereal military echelon that floated a C.I.D. man back into the ward posing as a patient.†
Chpt 1
- They all knew he was a C.I.D. man because he kept inquiring about an officer named Irving or Washington and because after his first day there he wouldn't censor letters.†
Chpt 1censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR a person who does such suppression
- He's looking for someone up in the hospital who's been signing Washington Irving's name to the letters he's been censoring.†
Chpt 7censoring = removing or suppressing something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
- Major Major looked with a blank expression at copies of personal correspondence from the hospital on which the censoring officer had written 'Washington Irving' or 'Irving Washington.'†
Chpt 9
- His mind germinated feverishly with challenging new ideas for sparking the great spiritual revival of which he dreamed himself the architect — box lunches, church socials, form letters to the families of men killed and injured in combat, censorship, Bingo.†
Chpt 20censorship = the act of removing or suppressing anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
- Every time he tries to report you to his superiors, somebody up at the hospital censors out the details.†
Chpt 20censors = removes or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR people who does such suppression
- I just put a censor's okay on his letter without even reading it.†
Chpt 20censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR a person who does such suppression
- But you aren't authorized to censor letters, are you?†
Chpt 20
- I censored it in your name.†
Chpt 20censored = removed or suppressed something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
- 'But I'm not authorized to censor letters either.†
Chpt 20censor = remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable OR a person who does such suppression
- And looking very superior, he tossed down on the table a photostatic copy of a piece of V mail in which everything but the salutation 'Dear Mary' had been blocked out and on which the censoring officer had written, 'I long for you tragically.†
Chpt 36censoring = removing or suppressing something considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable
- 'Chaplain,' he announced with magisterial rigidity, 'we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
to remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, politically unacceptable, or a security threat
or:
a person who decides which such material should be removed or suppressed
or:
a person who decides which such material should be removed or suppressed