Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same frequency as a local TV station. British HQ is aware of this. Messages that could tip off Provo patrols are cut short by clipped instructions "to use other means" of communication. Such lapses as "We don't want another calamity like Lima's [code name for a British patrol] shooting on our own men" or "Can you claim a hit?" are met with the sort of hilarity among Bogsiders that Americans reserve for a good quip on the Dick Cavett Show...
...Yakir's case comes to court, it will be the first known political trial since January, when Writer Vladimir Bukovsky was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, forced labor and exile under Article 70 of the Russian Republic's criminal code ("defaming the Soviet political and social system"), the same law under which Yakir is being held. Yakir protested Bukovsky's arrest and presumably will now defend himself by arguing that the authorities themselves are violating the Soviet constitution when they suppress dissent...
...Look at Organized Crime, he fearlessly exposes the blood code of the Mafia ("Death is one of the worst things that can happen to a Cosa Nostra member, and many prefer simply to pay a fine"). In this, and in most of his other recent pieces, Allen displays a debt to the creator of the Blind Explanation, Robert Benchley ("There is no such place as Budapest"). "Benchley has become a new idol for me," Allen says today. "Perhaps because everybody else also imitates Perelman's complicated style, I've tried to get simpler, like Benchley, and to write...
...earnings of $38,286, stood accused of several times placing her ball in a more advantageous position. Two weeks ago, the L.P.G.A.'s executive board, made up of five fellow players, decided to suspend her from the circuit for one year on grounds of "actions inconsistent with the code of ethics of the organization...
...They concern men living stubbornly in the middle of change, hanging on, scarcely surviving. "We got to look beyond our guns," one of the outlaws says in The Wild Bunch, Peckinpah's greatest film. Everyone agrees, but no man among them can adapt, so they die by the code of an earlier time rather than live...