Word: crypticism
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...exact implication of a few cryptic sentences by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss will long be debated in scientific, military and diplomatic circles, but their gist was clear: the U.S. had found a way to control, at least in some measure, the deadly and indiscriminate fallout produced by large nuclear explosions...
...parents at the age of 1 i½, Cryptanalyst Friedman developed an early interest in ciphers. Like many another schoolboy, he caught the bug by reading Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug. But he put his new-found knowledge to no nobler use than that of exchanging cryptic love notes with a winsome classmate. After trying his hand in an ironworks after graduation from high school, young Friedman at last decided to work his way through agricultural college and become a farmer. Graduating close to the top of his class at Cornell, he was offered...
Onto the New York Stock Exchange's big ticker screens one morning last week flashed a cryptic legend: "F 135 62." Immediately, the cavernous trading room erupted with cheers and popping flashbulbs. The symbol "F," unused since Consolidated Vultee Aircraft gave it up two years ago, now belonged to the Ford Motor Co., which at 10:02 a.m. on Wednesday began its first day of stock trading on the big board...
When each had sung two numbers, Gutman retired to study cryptic marks on his score papers, then came back with his decision. It had been a "very good audition," he said. He found some language weakness: most of the German and Italian was "atrocious," but to his surprise he found the French excellent...
...morning last week Carlos stepped from a plane and set foot again on Venezuelan soil. Later the Arcayas waiting in Manhattan received a cable from a friend in Caracas: SPANISH MERCHANDISE DETAINED IN CUSTOMHOUSE. The cryptic message meant that Carlos had been jailed on arrival. A phone call next day confirmed...