Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witness before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee, Author (BrainWashing in Red China) Hunter again showed his preoccupation with words, made a sharp point: "We are going to be taken for a ride at the summit if we do not realize that the Communists have a special code language which we must deal with. We've got to specify which dictionary meaning we are using for a whole collection of special words like peace, free world, aggression, and the like-the Communist dictionary or the American." Some definitions in the Communist dictionary...
...gradually, with the nagging suspense of a husband discovering a wife's infidelity from scattered clues, the reader realizes that Joan is not what she seems to be. She is, in fact, glibly promiscuous, invulnerable in her amorality. After a fashion, she has a code, and as she spells out its principles the reader will recognize in them the authentic touch of countless other Joans: any mistake is instantly righted if only one admits having made it; promiscuity is permissible if only it is covered with the illusion of being in love. In short, Joan is "a girl...
...Mystical Code. For 5½ years Dr. Guarducci and her sister Maria pored over the strange crisscross of signs and letters in the grottoes beneath the altar, comparing them with those in the catacombs in and near Rome. Gradually, the searchers began to find significant repetitions, and meanings began to take shape...
...century Christians, driven underground by persecution, developed a mystical code. Commonest of the symbols, and still in use today, is the chi rho -a combination of the first two Greek letters of the word Christ to form a χ ρ. Similarly, early Christian worshipers and pilgrims used the Latin letters P and E for Peter, M for Mary, T for the Cross. These were often inserted in the names of the worshipers and those they wished to commemorate. Thus the name CRISPINA is written with a Greek X fused with the P, making the chi rho and indicating Crispina...
...reporting others' rule violations were largely overlooked by the committee, which urged that girls continue to be responsible for each other. This provision, however, remained so universally disliked and disregarded that last fall Student Government Association followed the course of least resistance and abolished it. "Rightly or wrongly, the code not to inform is deeply ingrained in all of you," Dean Kathleen O. Elliott commented. In general, Annex undergraduates supported the paradoxical position that social pressure actually works more, rather than less effectively when students are not forced to report one another...