Word: codes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne's poetry in a volume that he had been reading: "Batter my heart, three-person'd God." "Trinity," he said over the phone, "we'll call it Trinity...
...some of the designations seem motivated at least in part by politics--"Ethnic and cultural heritage appreciation" is code for the Dante Alighieri Center, a pet project of powerful city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has criticized institutional guidelines in the past when they seemed likely to limit his plans...
Indeed, regular justice of any kind hardly existed in Chile. Throughout this year, the Chilean Armed Forces ignored its own military code of justice. It murdered 20,000 Chilean citizens during and after the coup, and interned 35,000 citizens in camps or prisons, a terror which orphaned at least 30,00 children...
Mike Deaver. Second to Meese as a policy adviser, Michael Deaver, 42, is closer personally to both Rawhide and Rainbow-the Secret Service code names for Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Witty, genial and well liked by his colleagues and reporters, Deaver is keenly sensitive to the likes and dislikes of both Reagans. He knows, almost instinctively, what types of campaign events make Reagan feel at ease. In the coterie of pleasant people around Reagan, Deaver may be the most charming...
Like grocery store merchandise, each entrant had a bar code, which she tore off her race number, and handed to officials when she completed the course. A Honeywell computer then matched times, codes and names and issued a printout that was posted on Boston Common...