Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a young Englishman named Nicholas Cresswell was touring the Colonies last year, his journal guardedly referred to the "Sgnik Sdneirf that he met. Cresswell's code was transparent. But the need for protective secrecy on behalf of the "King's Friends" in the New World is dramatic enough. By now, the harassing of known Loyalists?an estimated 15% of the population?has reached a point that might best be described by a bit of tavern-house doggerel: "Tories with their brats and wives Should fly to save their wretched lives...
...service in London in 1738. Unlike the usual Anglican priest, Wesley set out to spread assurance of salvation to Britons of all classes. Still indefatigable at his 73rd birthday last month, Wesley also insists on "doing good of every possible sort" for the needy. He requires a puritanical code of his flock: no swearing, Sabbath work, buying or selling liquor, brawling, or wearing of rich apparel...
...attacks upon colonists, but Massachusetts Delegate John Adams says that "another tribe more numerous and powerful than all the rest were grown discontented." The warning in fact came from his spirited wife Abigail, who recently surprised her husband by addressing him in terms less than dutiful: "In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. If particular care and attention is not paid [us], we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will...
TAXES. In one of his few flights of angry rhetoric, Carter calls the present loophole-ridden federal tax code "a disgrace to the human race." He pledges to recommend a total overhaul, scrapping scores of deductions and exemptions in return for generally lower rates...
...scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise to critics of the country's preoccupation with money. They point out that the legal code inflicts heavier penalties for failure to pay a hotel bill than for statutory rape...