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Word: password (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris Calling likely to. A melodrama of espionage and counterespionage, its title is the password of a secret shortwave radio station, over which Miss Bergner sends information by piano for decoding in England. Miss Bergner plays second fiddle to a gadgety plot which seldom gives her a chance. When it does, she is artful and pleasing. But melodrama is no frame for her childlike, tragicomic quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...fired on them by mistake. Probably U.S. defenders did too, but more rarely because the Nip had the initiative, had to keep moving. On the northern front pious Filipino troops identified themselves at night by shouting "Adios Ko" (God be with you). The Jap caught on and echoed the password, but his accent was wrong and his shout brought destruction from Filipino rifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE PHILIPPINES: Desperate, Not Hopeless | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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