Word: code
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recalled, "Silvermaster said that Currie dashed into Silverman's home and said the Americans were on the verge of breaking the Russian code." That information made the Russians "very excited." They asked her to find out which code; she never could...
...conference even had a code name -"Metric." Said a disappointed French delegate after the conference: "We regarded it as a hopeful sign that the British, who usually insist on measuring things with their feet, invented this code name 'Metric'; we thought they were coming over to continental ideas. We came here with the idea de bousculer les Anglais. We should know by now you can't light fires under the British...
Last week, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Petelka was looking for converts to his "Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...
...news. After almost three years, censorship (already suspended for most of the Japanese press) was abolished; henceforth editors will have to figure out for themselves what is unfit to print. But they were warned that censorship might be restored, or editors suspended for not observing the occupation "press code...
Because of the code, Japanese editors were afraid to exercise their new freedom. Some of them promptly appealed to General MacArthur for an "informal censorship" board to guide them...