Word: coded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misgivings when the show first went on the air 13 weeks ago. "We never did like the idea of a giveaway show," he explained, "but we're like sheep." He added: "Down in our hearts our conscience bothered us." He was further influenced by the new code of the National Association of Broadcasters which contains the mild stricture that "any broadcast designed to 'buy' the radio audience . . . should be avoided...
...TIME, Aug. 2, I read: "democratic, the adjective, 873000" (in Ivan Petelka's code language); I also read "27-873000-27-12300.0-01-02-03" meaning "As simple as counting one, two, three...
...Rules. Beau Nash changed all that. He made himself master of ceremonies, raised money for buildings, started the Pump Room Orchestra, organized balls and assemblies in a stately new hall, laid down and enforced a code of manners (sword-wearing and smoking in front of ladies were banned), ordered all the old ladies to sit in the back rows and all the shyest maidens to dance. The plump, dandiacal "King of Bath," whose crown was an enormous cream-colored beaver hat, ruled society like an autocrat.* Graceful new Georgian buildings transformed Bath into the handsomest of English towns...
...assertion of Canadian nationalism, it called for abolition of appeals to the Privy Council in London. It favored a defensive union with the U.S. and Western Europe. (Almost unnoticed, young Liberals slipped through a resolution amendment favoring "union security" and calling on the government to enforce the labor code. Snapped big, bumbling Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell: "A stupid decision...
Surprisingly, there was no loud howl from radiomen. Everybody seemed to have been expecting it. The new code of the National Association of Broadcasters, radio's own trade organization, is flatly on record, as of July 1, that "any broadcasting designed to 'buy' the radio audience, by requiring it to listen in hope of reward, rather than for quality of entertainment, should be avoided...