Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right to their own. They don't want and they won't take our blueprint of the future. It's foolish of us to think we're going to force it down their throats. Practically speaking the only basis for a settlement in Central Europe is a code of international morality which guarantees the rights of these countries to whatever government they choose--Russia to communism, Poland to despotism, Czechoslovakia to democracy. We'll get a lot further in working out this code if we don't confuse ourselves with any illusion about a world of free people...
...staff were put up at The White to get them out of Washington, keep them in seclusion until they are returned to Germany. They had scarcely gone when FBI men moved into the German Embassy, discovered there a powerful short-wave radio station which had been sending messages in code...
...wave signal: no message, just two-and three-letter calls. Promptly all monitoring stations in the U.S. began to listen for it. Directional measurements were taken in Texas, in Nebraska, in Georgia, in Massachusetts, in Maryland. Triangulations were worked out. By the time the transmitter began sending messages-in code-FCC knew about where it was. It was about in the German Embassy...
...Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic authority, published the All-Time Ring Record Book...
Jane Wyman, self-acclaimed kissing champion of Hollywood and honorary top sergeant, pondered Britain's code-wary ban on Xs in love letters, dreamed up a substitute: lipstick impressions. "I wish every girl who writes to a soldier would send them," she confessed to the newspapers...