Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, without telling any of his aides, concluded with Winston Churchill that the second option was the wiser. The two solemnized their agreement in a secret aide-memoire of a conversation at Hyde Park in September 1944: "The suggestion that the world should be informed regarding Tube Alloys [British code for the bomb], with a view to an international agreement regarding its control and use, is not accepted." Concludes Sherwin with characteristic understatement: "The Anglo-American leaders' publicly professed expectations for continued cooperation with the Soviet Union, it is now obvious, were somewhat less firm than has been heretofore...
...gives clues by placing in four small holes either black markers (for correct color, correct position), white markers (correct color, wrong position) or no markers (wrong color). The codebreaker next arranges another row of pegs and is given more clues, repeating the process until he has deduced the hidden "code." Then the players switch positions; the winner is the one who figures out the code in the least number of tries...
...popular? Despite the complexity of some of the advanced versions of the game, says Gene Lewallen, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, "it's easy to understand the rules, and it's not long and drawn out like chess [average time to crack the code: 15 minutes]." Lis Nygaard, a television producer from Toronto, plays Master Mind on planes. She became a fan because, "You can break the ice with people. You get to know a lot about them: how they think, even what colors they like...
...night, student overseers at all but one of the dances enforce a dress code. Swing and ball-room music dominates at a few affairs. At another semi-formal, students contort themselves to the latest discotheque tunes in a hall so dark that it would have been impossible to distinguish between tuxedos and clean football jerseys. Many at the semi-formal compare the atmosphere to that of the 1920s. "It's the same old song put to different music," one student complains. "Why couldn't I have been here six years ago when Yale and Harvard didn't mean...
...about Ralph is that he gambles. He claims that fierce gamblers run the Combat Zone and he enjoys explaining the strange code, he calls it, that requires them to squash you if you don't hold your end of a deal. "You like to read, uh, poetry, right? Well these people like to gamble; that's their poetry, gambling...