Word: codes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while on the hotline to Washington, General Fitzhugh explains his confusing signoff: "Disneyland? That's our code word for Washington...
Five numerals and a prefix was hard enough. Seven numerals was clearly pushing it. With the addition of three more digits-for area code -phone numbers became endless strings of digits, impossible for all but the strong-minded to remember. Was there a way to give them shape, meaning, character? What about referring to the dial and decoding the digits back into letter form-changing telephone numbers into telephone names? That way, 255-7465 made ALL PINK, 744-7226 the even more colorful PIGS CAN. The telephonetics game was slow in starting, but today it is only the phone company...
...Port Harcourt, with its airport, harbor and oil installations. For the remainder of the fight, Biafra was a landlocked island. Apart from radios, its sole contact with the world was a 75-ft.-wide strip of highway at Uli that had been converted into an airstrip with the code name Annabelle...
...Code of Kipling
xMAMMON, God of Riches, following Dryden's Eye and sighting the bright gold Lettering of the Shield, rushed as if called by a Secret Code to the Side of the Righteous...