Word: crypticisms
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...time the troops knew that action could not be long delayed. Cabled the suspicious correspondent of the King-hating Toronto Evening Telegram: "C.O.'s had been primed to caution their men . . . to be on their best behavior. . . ." The only grouse heard from the ranks was the not-so-cryptic remark of a hard-bitten private with no love for dress parades: "I wonder if they can read our thoughts...
...Pisa and deducing from it the law of the pendulum, and Isaac Newton watching the fall of an apple and deducing from it the law of gravity. For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its cryptic meaning. His discernment, restoring to science the creative vision which it has sometimes been held to lack, also restored health to millions of men living and unborn...
...blue canvas garment and carried a pilgrim's staff. He was young Antonio Conselheiro. For ten years he had been wandering in the backlands of Brazil (hiding there in shame after his wife had run off with a policeman), eating little or nothing, indifferent to danger, speaking in cryptic, prophetic monosyllables, sleeping in the open, and becoming a terrifying, unforgettable legend. He was crazy...
...mountain hut he confronted Fenton triumphantly, explained that it was all an anti-Nazi plot. Escaping Axis prisoners were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft...
...creator of the war's most shocking book published it herself. A collection of 62 8½ by 1 1¼ photographs, Europe's Children was rejected by ten U.S. publishers before Photographer Therese Bonney brought it out herself, with no imprint beyond the cryptic message : Limited autographed edition $3. Send your check to National City Bank, 32nd Street Branch, 1 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. account No. 123. By word of mouth and an occasional unillustrated review, the fame of Europe's Children spread so fast that its edition of 2,000 was quickly exhausted...