Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immigrant had arranged a code with his friends before returning to the promised land. "I will send a picture," he told them. "If I am well off, I will be standing. If things are going badly with me, I will be sitting down." The first snapshot to arrive showed the sender lying flat on the ground...
...hastened to the fort. That led to a court-martial and thorough humiliation of the high-strung young officer. His trial brought out other charges. He had once abandoned a detachment of his troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis of the effect on Custer: "The giant had been stabbed in the back by pygmies. His pride had been severely wounded, and the wound festered, leaving an ugly scar. This scar could be made...
...rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...
...session had produced a lot of talk, but so little legislation that the Ottawa Journal complained editorially: "Not Much to Show for Six Months' Work." Among the items put off to the next session: revision of the Income Tax Act; the federal labor code; revision of the Dominion Elections...
...action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy which denies religion or any ethical code...