Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the postwar years the big leaders have had, according to former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a code of civility. For all his tough words about U.S. foreign policy, Brezhnev has never personally savaged an American President. Lyndon Johnson once heard that his Undersecretary of State, George Ball, had disparaged Charles de Gaulle. L.B.J. called Ball up and told...
...beach near the mainland Chinese village of Gezhou, code named "Mike," looked deserted in the moonlight. Just offshore, in a glassy South China sea, a crew member on the seagoing tugboat Michael signaled inland with three sharp flashes of a hand-held light. Almost immediately, three answering flashes came from the shadowy trees at the edge of the 300-yd. beach. Suddenly, hundreds of figures swarmed silently down to the water's edge, where they had a brief and emotional rendezvous with their foreign visitors. The long-awaited and highly covert task that evening: unloading and distributing more than...
...professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code of the impulse message from the eyes...
...that collect the subsidy may, if they wish, also offer snacks, ice cream and à la carte items at truly "full" prices, but all pupils choosing the standard meal stand in the same line for the same food. Only school personnel are supposed to know, from an inconspicuous printed code, how much, if anything, students have paid for their meal tickets. (Inevitably, in many schools the student grapevine finds out anyway...
...house came to harden into a kind of entitlement, a right, an inevitability. The baby-boom children of the broad American middle class-especially seduced by the illusion. Until now, through many headlong cultural confusions, they carried with them a barely conscious expectation, a sort of buried genetic code. When they chose to do so, when the babies started arriving, they could transform themselves into Ozzie and Harriet and find houses like the ones their parents owned-or much nicer, maybe-and therein comfortably get on with the American dream...