Word: crypticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Something has happened in the District of Columbia." Two days after receiving this cryptic phone message from an accomplice, Michael Townley, 33, an American-born agent of Chile's secret police (DINA), flew home to Santiago from Miami, his mission accomplished. It was to assassinate Orlando Letelier, 42, a self-exiled former Chilean Ambassador and eloquent critic of the military junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Letelier was killed in Washington on Sept. 21, 1916, by a remote-controlled bomb planted in his blue Chevelle; killed with him was an American aide, Ronni Moffit...
...fact, says the author, Hemingway is the only source for some of the most widely repeated anecdotes about Fitzgerald. Many of them are contained in A Moveable Feast (1964). That posthumous volume begins with Hemingway's cryptic statement that though the book could be read as fiction, "there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact." Too many readers have confused light and facts. For example, in Moveable Feast, Hemingway gives the impression that Fitzgerald's literary advice was worthless, although a ten-page memo...
...Mountie met seven times with Vartanian, with other Russians involved in arranging the rendezvous; some provided transportation, while others posted cryptic signals. One method was to stick tapes to a pillar in an Ottawa shopping center. According to written instructions given the Mountie, "Vertical position of tape-operation takes place in Montreal. Horizontal position-operation takes place in Ottawa. Yellow color-call for the regular meeting. Black color-call for instant meeting...
Kayali charged to first place in the triple jump with his best leap ever of 48 ft. 3 in. He competed with a fever and Harvard's cryptic coach quipped, "when...
...style. Many lines in "Echo's Bones" and "Malacoda" remind us of that airy, disjointed dialogue in Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Beckett's poems are filled with much of the same choppy, incomplete, grammarless phrases that characterize his prose and dialogues. Yet there is still that cryptic element...