Word: crypticness
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Manuel Noriega spent the holiday season in a Miami prison awaiting trial for drug trafficking, but he didn't forget old friends and supporters back in Panama. The ousted dictator mailed out a Christmas card bearing a cryptic poem: "God is who makes the time/ the sole owner of eternity. Because He/ knows it all/ and knows/ how and/ when . . .! This is my thought/ of meditation/ and from the depth/ I give you today in/ Christmas." Could the former strongman be contemplating an insanity defense...
...Silverado S&L, which collapsed in 1988 at a cost of $1 billion to the U.S. When Judge Daniel Davidson issued his decision, he declared that Bush had broken conflict-of-interest rules. The judge ordered Bush to avoid future conflicts, a mild sanction. But the OTS lawyers' cryptic reference to a potential new problem intrigued congressional investigators...
Harvard discourages the formation of student groups. It is widely understood that students are prohibited from forming chapters of established national organizations. But more cryptic regulations abound...
Sometimes, when U.S. colloquialisms are so cryptic that not even a dictionary can help, members call on TIME's Seoul bureau. There reporter K.C. Hwang and assistant Kim Jung Ran aid in deciphering such curious expressions as Where's the beef?, laundering money, or read my lips...
...communications with the Kremlin, U.S. policymakers and diplomats have been careful not to make this pitch too explicit. They are afraid the KGB may make mischief between Washington and Bonn by leaking any cable or memorandum that reveals Americans to be exploiting Soviet anxiety about Germany. There is nothing cryptic about the apprehension of the British, French, Czechoslovaks and Poles as they watch the juggernaut of German unification. The Bush Administration keeps hoping the Kremlin will therefore not object too strenuously as the U.S. helps sponsor the emergence of a new Germany at the center of a new NATO...