Word: coded
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Other Black students also tried to find and display their cultural heritage. First-years in the Class of 1972 refused to abide by the Harvard Union's dress code, which required a jacket and tie. Instead, the first-years wore traditional African garb...
...hour on the beaches, code-named Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha and Utah, came at 6:30 a.m. Thousands upon thousands of infantrymen packed into 1,500 boxy, flat-bottomed landing craft called Higgins boats churned toward shore. The weather had cleared, as predicted, but the wind still kicked up heavy waves that made most of the troops violently seasick. As the coastline appeared in the gray, misty light, the soldiers, each laden with almost 70 lbs. of wet battle gear, jumped neck-deep into the waves and scrambled ashore...
...eager American warriors were getting ahead of themselves. The Allies had neither the troops nor the landing craft needed to carry out Operation Sledgehammer or Roundup or the other code-named plans to invade France in 1942 or 1943. Yet to boost morale and reassure their voters, both Churchill and Roosevelt were determined to mount an offensive somewhere against the Germans before 1942 ended. They decided to invade North Africa to drive out the Italians and the German Afrika Korps, though Marshall and Eisenhower opposed the move as a diversion of resources...
...want?" He was so steeped in the culture of trading one favor for another that he had trouble believing Sherman had called merely to ask how he felt. Sherman quickly adds, however, another aspect of Rosty's mastery: "In dealing with the committee members, he had a code he never broke. It included giving political cover to every member, Republican or Democrat, in fending off requests of lobbyists or contributors." A member was always free to reply to an unreasonable request by saying, "I'd love to help you, but the chairman says no." All in all, Rosty was well...
Members are no longer bound by the old suit-collar-and tie-dress code: colorful, flowing African robes now stand out among the charcoal and the pinstripes, and one white A.N.C. member has been seen sporting a Nehru jacket. The A.N.C.'s Frene Ginwala, an Indian lawyer who is the nation's first female Speaker, took her seat last week in a sari rather than the usual House of Lords-style robe and trimmings...