Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behind the scenes. A professional madam at night, Devin by day was Sydney Biddle Barrows, of the New Jersey Biddies, one of the country's oldest and most distinguished families, say police. She and her mother are listed in the Social Register with the notation "Myf," the elite code for descendants of Mayflower Pilgrims...
...federal code tilts toward the Government
...raises some very important and very serious issues that are not being properly addressed," said Sumner H. Hoffman, director of Health Services. But he added that "my professional code of ethics and personal beliefs prevent me from helping in the taking of a life...
Both Roosevelt and Churchill have to deal with millions of troops deployed around the world, but both subscribe implicitly to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that God is in the details. Churchill loves to think up code names and refers to himself as Former Naval Person. But when he prepares to meet Roosevelt at the Casablanca conference in 1943, he cables a temporary change: "I am 'Air Commodore "Frankland."' Suggest you also choose an alias and one for Harry [White House Aide Harry Hopkins...
...couple of indicators, Montana should be right. The fashion industry was well pleased that Milan had played up bright colors and soft contours. It has been borrowing heavily from menswear tailoring and proportions, so that by last season the code word androgyny was used even by people who had a sneaking feeling that it meant something lewd. The Japanese influence, with its cool rejection of human anatomy, was at its height in 1983 as well. Clothing got heavy and neutral and business slowed...