Word: cipherer
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...university and sanatorium. She was lonely and infected with tuberculosis, a disease no one was brave enough to mention at the time because it usually meant an early death. Back in India, her father constantly lectured her and, when it suited him, used her as a cipher. His famous Letters from a Father to His Daughter, penned in prison, were never sent to her. Instead, he kept them in his cell waiting for a publisher. She was 20 when they were published in 1938. She didn't bother to read them until years later...
...stranger attempting self-understanding through observing the natives—the strength of his narratives stems from immersion and interaction. For instance, when Johnson lives with hippies, he does as hippies do, with results both poignant and humorous. In Seek, the narrator rarely reduces to a cipher...
...Cipher Deavours of Kean University said Rabin's method would have no practical purpose because it will not work for very long codes, an assertion Rabin refutes...
...crawling with abbreviations (when PKP takes on the NSA over RSA vs. the DSA, don't say we didn't warn you). Levy, the chief technology writer for Newsweek, has also chosen a difficult hero in Whit Diffie. For all his brilliance, the shy, secretive math geek remains a cipher...
...certainly true that when Lennon was shot he was immediately mythologized and canonized. Did we overreact to Lennon's death in 1980? Are we pining for a mythological cipher...