Word: decipherable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armed with sheaves of evidence and backed by 52 witnesses, the prosecutor began unfolding an imposing story of Communist espionage and intrigue. It began more than 2½ years ago, after the U.S.-bolstered Greek army had crushed the Communist guerrilla revolt. Greek intelligence officers began picking up coded radio...
Customer's Beef. In Tulsa, Okla., after they advertised that they would give a cow to anyone who could decipher the OPS meat regulations, Grocers Wes & "Choo" Phillips tried to head off an insistent housewife whose 850-word explanation was approved by the local OPS, finally compromised, awarded her...
Poe was a gambler, and "gambling, like bridge, is always an example of intelligence unfocused." As a detective he challenged the world to invent codes he could not decipher.
The U.S. entries were among the hardest to decipher. John Marin's seascape sketches and Karl Knaths's penciled still lifes seemed little more than shorthand notes made for the artists' convenience.