Word: anagram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...
...seventh month after its creation, restless NATO, through CPUBINFO (Chief of Public Information), named 80 sub-agencies and offices to be officially designated by top secret anagrams-their initials. By last week the number had increased to 125. Most everybody knew SACEUR (pronounced "Sack your" meaning the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, i.e., Dwight Eisenhower). They could guess at EB (the Executive Bureau of the Temporary Committee of the North Atlantic Council), but who could explain that SUSREP-NADPB meant Senior U.S. Representative North Atlantic Defense Production Board, or that CINCNELM meant Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic...
...peace proposal was a quickly juggled anagram of all the old ones. The Russians continue to insist on a toothless international inspection program-i.e., Russia wants to do its own inspection of its armament-and on the abolition of atomic weapons before a large-scale reduction of conventional armaments. (The Russians, who control the world's biggest armies, want to impose an arbitrary one-third reduction on the troops of all the Big Five powers.) Sniffed Dean Acheson: "This takes us back...