Word: coded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks passed, Krassowski mastered the various ways of keeping the "tips" (prospective customers) coming to his stand. But studying his fellow carnies became his real interest. He interviewed them, examined their code, eventually found that one theme dominates everything they do. "The carnival," Krassowski concluded, "is one of the few remaining strongholds of rugged individualism...
...fourth night, Frank Sinatra will long since have warbled the Democrats' new campaign song (still a top secret, it goes under the code name of "Baby Shoes"). Seven Democratic Congresswomen will have orated on family and home and the political issues of the day. The state-by-state roll calls will be over. (To keep up the TV pace, delegations that ask to be polled will be temporarily bypassed on the roll call while the chairman's aide conducts an off-camera canvass.) The convention will have roared with cries of "The man who ..." Then, finally, will come...
...victories must bring "Arabism's hopeful tomorrow when our flag will fly proudly and dearly over the [Palestine] they have stolen from us." The only sour note emanated from a clandestine radio that began calling for "the ouster of the mad tyrant Nasser" and presumably sending code messages to underground agents...
Bullfight (Janus Films) is a feature-length European-made documentary which brings to U.S. moviegoers all the blood and gore that Hollywood's code of ethics has denied them. Where Hollywood cameras have averted their gaze because of the bans on scenes of cruelty to animals, Bullfight stares fixedly and spares the viewer no detail of "the moment of truth...
...useful lubricants in the U.S. economy, not only facilitating industrial settlements but easing all sorts of disagreements between businessmen. With contracts increasing in number and complexity, and courtrooms increasingly jammed with work, arbitration has become a practical necessity. Not a new idea (the Romans wrote it into the Justinian Code), arbitration got its big impetus in World War II, when the Government, plagued by quickie strikes, insisted on labor-arbitration clauses in all defense-production contracts. Today nine out of ten union agreements provide for arbitration, and hundreds of thousands of organizations and corporations have arbitration clauses in their contracts...