Word: ciphering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alphabetic Cipher. If EDC were fact, the Communists might respond to these stirring challenges. As it is, they can thumb their noses at an alphabetic cipher. Three years of delay and cavil have convinced many Europeans and more Americans that nothing so troublesome, and so lukewarmly supported, as EDC can ever work well. The case against...
...passage of his life. The ancient Lily, still brimming with life, jeeringly mistakes him for still another of her daughter's suitors-or pretends to, since she does not want to sell the house. Both of them challenge Komar's ineffectual mildness. Lily Loyd calls him a cipher, and Blanche, driven by love and loneliness, says: "The Herbert Komars of the world seem to me to do great wrong: that is, they do nothing at all." Bewildered and aroused, Komar wonders to himself, as he compares the life of the Loyds with his own, what he has missed...
...cipher-minded Marasmen will try to make it four in a row this afternoon. They move to M.I.T. for a 4 p.m. match...
...this point, Russian calculations were upset by a 26-year-old cipher clerk in the Russian embassy in Ottawa. Igor Gouzen-ko had been in Canada only two years, but he had learned to love the free Western way of life. Entrusted with the coding of Zabotin's dispatches, he became alarmed at the magnitude of the conspiracy and the added power the possession of an atomic bomb would give Dictator Stalin. One evening Gouzenko ran out of the embassy with his shirt stuffed with Moscow telegrams, including some mentioning Alek...
...could wield nothing but his one vote. Following this by several paragraphs is the assertion that the Old Guard Republicans' enthusiasm for Kennedy is no more than a fanatic attempt to purge Lodge. The first statement seems plausible, the second unexceptionable, yet together they clash. If Lodge is the cipher Mr. Landis claims he is, why should the Taftites strain themselves so for his defeat? Surely, the Republican irresponsible would not brave the derision inevitably attending their support of a party-line Democrat unless Lodge threatened their power...