Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newsmen clustered outside the gates of San Clemente were able to pick up only a few crumbs of information. For a while, television crews tuned in on walkie-talkie conversations between Secret Service men patrolling the grounds, including regular reports on the whereabouts of "Searchlight," as Nixon is code-named. Then the Secret Service got wise and all that the TV crews could hear was an electronic hissing. But newsmen did learn that Nixon was still driving a golf cart to his office a short distance from the house. He was seen in the swimming pool and walking about...
...refitted the inside as a plush mobile home. Truckers who heard a strange voice jabbering away over the Citizen's Band radio frequency in Missouri recently were listening to none other than Muhammad All. "This is Big Bopper," Ali broadcast. "Watch out for Smokey Bear [truckers' code for a state trooper] at marker 139, westbound on Interstate...
Reporter Godfrey Sperling: "Do you plan to have a code of ethics for the Executive Branch...
President Gerald Ford: "The code of ethics that will be followed will be the example that...
...better part of two decades, the Atomic Energy Commission has been bedeviled by a problem of its own making. In 1957 it released a report with the code name WASH-740. The study was full of careful qualifications, but its conclusion was clear: an accident at a hypothetical atomic plant that released radioactive material into the atmosphere could kill 3,400 people, injure 43,000 others and do some $7 billion worth of property damage. That graphic example has probably caused more disaffection with nuclear power plants than any other argument by any nuclear critic, Ralph Nader included...