Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance to eat; no longer must plebes be able to spout back on command how many lights there are in Cullen Hall (340); no longer is "silencing" permitted--a form of extreme ostracism and abuse inflicted on those found guilty by their peers of breaking the honor code but absolved by a higher authority...
With the '20s came a new age of bureaucratic progressivism. The Planning Board, largely advisory when formed in 1913, conducted a number of studies in the '20s. And the building code adopted in 1924 included zoning power for the city government...
...training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that authorities consider them to be totally devoid of scholarly merit. Moreover, they are racist and violate every code of moral decency. Mr. Hakansson stated he "had been officially invited to present these films to members of the Harvard community by the Peabody Museum and biologist George Wald." I later shared my concerns about this subject with several of my colleagues, but it was too late to try to stop...
Mole is a code word for the double agent who has burrowed his way into the heart of the British secret service. As Tinker, Tailor opens, the head of intelligence, known only as Control (Alexander Knox), determines that one of his subordinates has an open line to Moscow. But which one? Enter the redoubtable George Smiley, brought out of retirement. The counterspy is an unlikely hero. He is middle-aged and stout, and his adulterous wife has bedded down with just about every man he knows, including Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson), one of the four candidates for Mole...
...position and plan from the briefcase of an alcoholic British headquarters officer while the silly sod makes love to a kinky belly dancer named Sonja. While Sonja wriggles, Alex scribbles, relaying this trove of vital and invaluable information to Rommel from a houseboat on the Nile, using a wireless code based on Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca...