Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more, and more, from her. If the upcoming elections leave an opening...
...star prisoner-and the object of an intensive man hunt code-named Operation Scorpio-was the most recently captured: Bernabe Buscayno, 32, alias Commander Dante, a veteran guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed...
...head off charges of quackery, the L.A.P.D. is now organizing a "forensic hypnosis society," a professional organization for police hypnotists-complete with a code of ethics. Says Captain Sandstrom: "We want to make hypnosis respectable-after all it came out of the dark ages...
...thousands of genes in the spiral-staircase structure of the DNA molecule in the common intestinal bacterium E. coli. Unlike human genes, which include millions of chemical "steps" along much larger DNA molecules, this bacterial gene contains only 199 full steps, each a pair of letters in the genetic code. Consisting of chemicals called nucleotides, these letters make up words in the gene's message-in this case, instructions to transfer the amino acid tyrosine to the cell's protein-manufacturing centers...
...role in deciphering the genetic code...