Word: crypticism
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...least of all his cryptic, cigar-chewing day-side news editor, Sid Forbes, had ever heard of a female copyreader. Forbes did not even like to think of one. The rest of the Journal staff, strong men all, paled. But, game to the core, Ayers hired six female copyreaders: his own secretary, the wife of the Journal's drama critic, the wife of another Journal employe, a publicity man's secretary, a trade publication employe, and a likely candidate fresh from Northwestern University's journalism school...
...game of his Sophomore year. Weighing better then 190 pounds and six feet one inch tall, he is a virtual certainty for All-American honors, in addition to being both a pitcher and an outfielder on the baseball squad. "He should give us a few headaches," was Stahl's cryptic summation of "Kuzs" capabilities...
Formerly every Bulu man and almost every woman had a special drum signature, like a radio program's theme song-a cryptic sentence full of jungle implications. Sample drum names: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing"; "The giant wood rat has no child, the house rat has no child"; "You'll die of witchcraft at midnight." Messages are addressed simply by tapping out the recipient's drum name. The sender's drum name follows, then the message...
...test of U.S. and Japanese surface seapower. Result: a licking for the Japs. The Navy said that U.S. cruisers and destroyers kept the Japs well away from the transports, finally forced the whole Jap fleet to retreat. Both sides took their losses; the Navy's cryptic account indicated only that they were heavy, that the Japanese had not dared another test of surface strength. The Navy calmly left others to infer that the Jap losses may well cripple them throughout the Pacific war area, that the U.S. losses may exceed those previously listed (one cruiser sunk, two cruisers...
...could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point in S. K.'s relations with the anti-Fascist "underground"-the cryptic groups that with sabotage, strikes, espionage, propaganda and murder wage an unremitting subterranean war to overthrow Mussolini and his Blackshirts...