Word: password
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berliner's password is "Mir kann keener"-"Nobody can put anything over on me"-and his instinctive reaction to totalitarianism, as it is to anything highfalutin, is a deflating wisecrack. The airlift memorial at which last week's anniversary ceremonies began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy...
...five people crawled out of the weird and apparently driverless vehicle safe in Greek territory, Ivanov called out the one word of Greek he had learned was a magic password. "Prosphyges! [Refugees!]," he cried...
...Your Cuban representative has not been able to do much for the Order in the last year due to the deplorable necessity of writing a book . . . The book will be published on Sept. 8th and all members of the Order will observe a moment of silence. The password will be: 'Don't cheer, boys. The poor readers are dying...
...main colonial route leading to Hanoi. It was jammed by tens of thousands of Communist coolies and Russian-made Molotov trucks, and they escaped notice in the turbulent swarm. On the third night, however, they ran up against a check point where they could not give the password, and the jig was up. Workers Like Ants. Punishment was light-their shoes were confiscated for two days, during which they had to march. The Reds' view was that the escape try had been stupid rather than criminal. One officer explained: "Of course, you're fresh from colonial slavery...
...power is Montgomery's password. Top U.S. Air Force men credit him with "writing the book" on modern use of air power as early as 1944. SHAPE'S top air man, U.S. General Lauds Norstad, considers the field marshal "the most elo quent and effective spokesman for air power in the world today." Says Montgomery himself: "I maintain the dominant factor in war is air power. It is the weapon which dictates everything you do, although the final conclusion is, of course, land...