Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Langer claimed he knew. Said he: it was a code word for an Administration move to back Dr. Umphrey Lee for the Senate...
Storm Operation (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is Maxwell Anderson at his weakest. A war play, it is about as exciting as cream of wheat. In vain did Anderson visit North Africa (where General Eisenhower supplied him with his title, a code phrase for the invasion). Anderson brought back nothing but some mild local color and some soldier talk that he could have heard at home...
Most important of their recommendations: 1) that the Dominion get power from the provinces to lay down a national labor code; 2) that planning be begun on a program to build 114,000 houses a year after the war; 3) that provincial C.C.F. parties work to prevent "further alienation of natural resources," concentrate on finding opportunities for new socialized industries; 4) socialized medical care for all Canadians...
...onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...
...next to Freedom, the concept which Americans hold most dear is Justice. And to U.S. legalists the swift action of East European trials smacked unpleasantly of the drumhead. Will the war be won if Justice is lost? Yet what shall the U.S. reply if, attempting to impose its code of elaborate safeguards and tortuous delays, its injured allies turn on it and cry: "Did they burn your homes? Did they murder your wives and children...