Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government met the underground voice more than halfway. Until the Germans came, no person in The Netherlands had been executed for any crime since 1870, when capital punishment was outlawed. But the Dutch law for Dutch murderers was too lenient for Dutch collaborators. The London Government rewrote the criminal code, restored the death penalty, prepared to execute Dutch quislings and their Nazi masters...
...Almost on the feast of Pentecost (May 28), the day on which the Church of Christ emphasizes the supranational, supraracial character of her mission, we learned that the Government of Hungary had agreed to enforce against the Jewish people a code of discriminatory laws. We were told that this unhappy segment of Israel in Hungary is being herded into ghettos after its homes and its shops had been systematically looted and pillaged...
...Rules should be few at the beginning. The organization should grow by practice, not try to start with a fixed, rigid code...
...Cochran ably planned and executed the first night's glider-borne operation, fortified by loan of two of Brigadier General William D. Old's troop carrier squadron planes and pilots (American). Beginning D plus 1 night, General Old fired his American and British squadron planes into "Broadway" (code name for strip) at a rate that would have left the dispatcher at LaGuardia dizzy. I counted as many as ten transports circling simultaneously, waiting clearance to land...
...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...