Word: crypticism
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Most responsible Chinese here are fully aware that Washington and the Seventh Fleet have a war on their hands and other things than Formosa to think about. Nevertheless, they have reasonably requested clarification here and in Washington of Truman's rather cryptic cease-fire orders to Chinese forces, and with notable patience and forbearance have tried to learn what is expected of them by the Seventh Fleet...
...knew what the news was. In the two days following the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow-Jones industrial average had chalked up a tidy rise of 2.5 points to 210.85. But shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the news tickers in brokerage offices flashed a cryptic message from Washington: the President would make an important announcement at 3 o'clock (i.e., after the market had closed...
Every week from Washington, D.C. scores of Multigraphed "news letters" flow out, full of capitalized warnings, uncheckable rumors and cryptic prophecies on political and economic things to come. Last week in the Nation, Associate Editor Robert Bendiner (TIME, April 17), with tongue in cheek, put out his own news letter. Samples...
...England Poet-Recluse Emily Dickinson was not stingy with her handiwork. After writing her simple but often cryptic verses at her bedroom writing table, she usually sent them off in letters to friends, or attached them to gifts of cakes and flowers for her brother Austin and his family, who lived next door in Amherst, Mass. But the poems that Emily Dickinson liked best or thought too personal to share she copied on small sheets of note paper; then she sewed them into little booklets with colored string and stored them away in her cherrywood bureau...
Unearthly Tongue. Some time ago, according to one version, a large space ship crashed in flames in New Mexico. Its 15 crew members were burned to a crisp, but luckily some of its instruments remained intact. One was a radio receiver, over which at short intervals came cryptic messages in an unearthly tongue...