Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once played golf with the King, and interviewed him on the King's game. New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, in a rare moment of benign relaxation, fondly recalled that the King was known to a group of U.S. war correspondents by the unofficial code name, "Harry the Horse,"* when he visited France in the early days of World War II. Manhattan's World-Telegram & Sun stamp writer dashed off a column under the head: KING'S DEATH SPELLS NEW BRITISH ISSUES. The Brooklyn Eagle reported that the King died...
...Some official wartime code names: Truman, "Kilting"; Stalin, "Glyptic"; Harry Hopkins, "Kneepiece"; Eisenhower, "Duckpin"; Stettinius, "Collodion...
...HMFL spells JOHN in a particular code, how does that code work...
...attributes of "a born detective," plus an unshakeable moral code. He kept a careful record of the names of doctors under whose "care," he thought, too many young women died; the resulting lists became a standing terror to British abortionists. To murderers, he became a more fearsome feature of the courtroom than the grimmest of judges. Foolish defense attorneys cross-examined him in the hope of breaking down his air of absolute rectitude and exactitude, but wiser ones let him have his say, and thanked God when he was done. Judges fell over themselves to praise him as "the perfect...
Hearing that Brahmachari's pamphlet had sold 76,000 copies, Nehru came rushing back to Allahabad last week with the challenge: "I shall fight to the end for the Hindu Code Bill. No country can dream of progress if it neglects the cause of its womenfolk." Snapped Nehru: "Rich people are behind Brahmachari.. . None else but the big black-marketeers, moneylenders, and landlords who are scared that Congress will soon do away with their feudal possessions." This week, as Allahabad voters went to the polls, Nehru seemed to have his constituency under control again. The whole country...