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Ready to March. One critical sector had eased. Egypt's flare-up had preoccupied Churchill on his homeward voyage; messages in cipher raced back & forth between the Queen Mary and Downing Street. Eden, who had flown back from Washington, worked late and long in emergency conferences. So did the War Office. Britain's strategic reserves on Cyprus were readied for transfer to the Canal Zone; the Mediterranean Fleet was alerted. If King Farouk had not put down the revolt, the British were prepared to move on Egypt. After Farouk's action, Eden turned to conciliation, said Britain...
Superintendent of State Police John A. Gafmey admitted that he had bottled up a report on Saratoga's wide-open gambling, but pleaded it was contrary to policy to take action in cities. Tobey exploded like a rusty pinwheel. "You did nothing. You were a cipher, a zero!" he roared. "If I were the governor of this state, I would give you just five minutes to get out of the place or I would kick you out." Mumbled Gaffney humbly: "I am glad you aren't the governor...
...commencements send out into the world individuals--individuals each of whom is different and each of whom has different aspirations, and potentialities, and a different future. The commencement speaker by his very function must address each of these individuals as if each were a mere cipher...
They have treated him as a political cipher--Cunningham displaying extraordinarily bad taste, others with somewhat more respect, Fast with reverence and fury--failing completely to treat his death apart from its possible political significance. They have distorted and misconstrued the fact of his death for their own partisan purposes...
...Levinson is a mere cipher to the main characters of the story-a silver liquid that laps around everything, distributes a subtle irony of understatement to the doings of the group, without doing much itself...