Word: code
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montanez was missed. The ship turned back upon her course. Officers engaged in minute calculations. Sailors swarmed up to the crosstrees and passengers lined the rails to stare at the twinkling, pitiless face of the sea. Though there was no hope that Tomas Montanez would be found, the curious code of civilization demanded that a thorough search be made. Then, amazingly, after an hour and a quarter, a passenger raised a shout...
...Russian Embassy's secret code word for the Marshall Plan...
...firmest tenets in Harry Truman's personal code is that the private lives of his womenfolk should remain private. Accordingly, the President had an unhappy time of it last week when a rumor curled around Washington that daughter Margaret was about to become engaged...
...overdo," had done a surprising amount in eight months. SCAP-sponsored democratizing legislation, obstructed by previous cabinets, had Katayama's willing acquiescence. The Home Ministry, notorious for its "thought control" hammer lock on the Japanese, had been dissolved; a Labor Ministry had been inaugurated; a new criminal code and a new police system had been established...
...bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons of Heth, who fought with Egyptians and Mesopotamians when the world was younger...