Word: cloak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...James Bond, no more Ethan Hunt, and certainly no more xXx. Using technology as an insulating barrier makes sense from a certain viewpoint, but Keefe argues that the government’s reliance on signals intelligence at the expense of human intelligence—“old fashioned, cloak and dagger, man-on-the-ground spying”—has ominous implications for national security in the present...
...clicked through, I for the first time marveled at Firefox, a crazy, bizarro version of Internet Explorer that somehow blocks pop-up windows. I appreciated the multitudes of movie trailers played through iTunes. I gasped at how my first semester grades benefited from some kind of invisibility cloak built into the Registrar’s website. Amazing...
...Defense Department, in fact, has had a checkered history with cloak-and-dagger work. The Pentagon set up intelligence units in the early 1980s that were kept secret from Congress. They became rogue outfits, using tax dollars for questionable operations, to pay for expensive hotel rooms, first-class airline tickets and, in one instance, a hot-air balloon and a Rolls-Royce...
...There’s not much to be said about the cloak,” says Tusk, who will graduate in June at age 20. “I wore it a great deal freshman year. I still wear cloaks now. But somehow it seems less rewarding...
...Though cloak dry cleaning bills remain a headache, Tusk has more important things on his mind. Like: God. This is something Heller has learned through HRSFA. One of the group’s favorite annual events is the Hunt, a fall fete where members take off their clothes, paint themselves blue and chase down a (consenting) freshman—known as the “stag”—in a parody of a Celtic hunting ritual...