Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...connecting D'Aubuisson with Romero's death, Duarte broke the unofficial code of silence that has long protected rightist army officers and politicians from prosecution for their alleged ties to the death squads. At the same time, prominent leaders of the leftist Salvadoran rebels returned home, testing Duarte's compliance with the Central American peace accord that he and five other regional leaders signed in August. A miscalculation in balancing right against left could not only plunge El Salvador into a new round of death-squad killings but also jeopardize the entire peace process...
...Government built its case on more than 100 wiretapped telephone conversations in which El Rukns used a complicated code to discuss terrorist schemes. "The young friend" was a code name for Gaddafi, "the old man" meant Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. "Apples" and "potatoes" referred to explosives...
...recent "innovation" developed by Bell Lab's Department for Creative Sadism currently is attempting to doom the human race to extinction by exposing the public to fatal doses of irritation. The project--code named "Call Waiting"--promises to be to humanity what massive and ubiquitous mud pits were to the dinosaurs...
...When a "code blue" emergency sounded in the cardiac ward of Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, N.Y., Registered Nurse Richard Angelo, 25, was often first on the scene, working feverishly to save the endangered patient. No wonder: Angelo regularly created those emergencies by injecting elderly patients with muscle-paralyzing drugs that led to respiratory failure. Then he would lead resuscitation efforts in a bizarre attempt to look like a hero to his co-workers...
Eventually he collided with the code of criminal law. Innocently mentioning his liaisons to a policeman while reporting a burglary at his home, he abruptly found himself transformed from victim to accused criminal. In a Britain that had not yet legalized homosexual relations between consenting adults, the resulting trial cost him his reputation, his work, even his masculinity: to repress Turing's sexual urges, a judge ordered him treated with female hormones. He was subsisting on university research in 1954 when, in a bizarre echo of a favorite movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he killed himself by eating...