Word: cipher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME perpetuates a colossal misstatement: that a reading of the Japanese "Purple Code" by the Army helped the Fleet Admiral dispose his forces for the Battle of Midway. The Purple Code was a Japanese diplomatic cipher; whether we read it or not had no relation to Midway. What did occur was that in April or early May 1942 a group of naval (including Marine) cryptanalysts and Japanese linguists working under Commander J. J. Rochefort at Pearl Harbor were successful in partially breaking and translating a Japanese naval code. This was a major element (but by no means the only...
...recent years, James Stewart plays the stubborn, not-very-bright bush pilot, a "back number" who demonstrates leadership by guarding the water rations. "Little men with slide rules and computers are going to inherit the earth," he grumbles. His adversary is a German, Hardy Kruger, a small humorless cipher whose knowledge of aerodynamics puts everyone's fate in his hands, and well he knows it. Richard Attenborough is flawless as a stuttering, alcoholic navigator, rivaled by Ian Bannen as a bore abristle with saving wit, and Peter Finch as an officer whose code of honor consists mostly of suicidal...
Than confined within a cipher...
...rather dispirited down and outer: "Dear little zero/Queer little zero/ He's nearly fat as he's tall." Nobody's hero, apparently, but once the other numbers discover the multiple advantages of standing next to zero, he becomes an incredibly popular and happy little cipher...
...Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party. But on the way home that night, ruffians accost Akakievich, steal his coat and with it his reason for existence. Again friendless, the cipher succumbs to madness and death; yet his ghost remains, seizing the coat collars of stolid St. Petersburgers to remind them that humanity is more than appearances...