Word: crypticness
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...This cryptic statement was the heart & soul of the State Department's Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (see INTERNATIONAL). Upon the "denaturing" depended the effectiveness of the Plan, which proposed to distribute the "harmless" materials freely...
...justice." Philip Woodruff (the pseudonym of a Briton who has worked for many years in India) never tells his readers whether Gopal Singh actually did shoot his wife. But he gives them an exciting description of the religious, tribal, political and human intricacies that make Indian legal procedure as cryptic as the Indian rope trick. They also make Call the Next Witness one of the year's most striking and unusual novels...
...American destroyer in the British Channel wasn't too far for one candidate for that venerable Institution. Called to his ensign's berth while still a nominee, he was elected by the lads he left behind him soon after his departure. His proud parents cabled a joyful if cryptic note: "Hasty Pudding. Congratulations...
Small, dark Lewis Judah Ruskin was a drugstore stockboy in Chicago when his father gave him a cryptic warning: "You'll never be successful; ambitious men never are." Lewis shrugged, and set out to become the "General Motors of the drug and cosmetic industries...
Even when they fly still intact, rattletrap, ungainly, frail, murderous, the suicide planes are lonely and individual as faces, macabre as hearses, cryptic as death itself. And against the "men who want to die" roars up the desperate skill and clamor of the "men who fight to live." Both the intrepidity of reason, and the intrepidity of whatever the Japanese use in its place, are caught in The Fleet That Came to Stay in a relationship beyond all logic. It is not a pleasant film. It is an immemorially primitive nightmare in extremely modern dress; a dance of death...