Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkish-Cypriot administration has tried to parcel out former Greek property equitably-though there have been inevitable charges of favoritism. Each Greek house has a code painted near the front door, consisting of a letter followed by a number. Final selection has been accomplished by a sort of raffle. Unless a house had been looted, the refugees found it was fully furnished down to linen, clothing and dishes. The fleeing Greek families had stopped only long enough to scoop up money, jewelry and blankets...
...existing conditions. The first of these changes was his conversion to the Black Muslim faith. While in Charleston prison serving a ten-year sentence for armed robbery, Malcolm became a devoted follower of Elijah Muhammed, the "messenger" of Allah. The intense racial pride of the Muslims, their strict moral code, and their tight discipline gave Malcolm a positive self-image. For the first time, he felt pride in himself as a black man. The Muslim teachings enabled him to see his apparent failure in life as being a result of his oppression as a black man in white American society...
Science is not on a plateau, and we will not be able to outlaw new theoretical methods of annihilation. I think though that we do need a more effective code of arms limitation. We need a better way of monitoring [the other side] to reassure other nations of the limitation on destruction. That can be carried out if we can get the Soviets to agree to on-site inspection...
...retired from the city council four years ago to return to a private practice as an attorney in Boston. He had lost his power five years before that. And yet say the name Eddie Crane to a Harvard Square businessman and his face lights up--it's like a code-word for action. They won't say whether it was beneficial action, but businessmen will admit it was progress just the same. "Crane was a catalyst--the person to whom people went when they wanted something done," Cambridge Trust President H. Gardner Bradlee '40 recalls. "He was a real leader...
...symptoms (paralysis of a healthy leg, for example) to panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt when his halftrack was blown up, broke down because the machine had been his home...