Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numbers in proving past discrimination? Do you have to show actual intent to discriminate, or is the fact that there are no blacks in the work force, enough? There is a body of law on this issue, but it is confusing and obscure. We have not heard the last word on this by any means...
...Cuba's large black and mulatto population. At a May 5 town meeting in Spokane, Wash., President Carter commented that Soviet adventurism in Africa is doomed to fail because of the Russians' "innate racism." Says one Cuban pointedly: "I object to Carter's use of the word 'innate...
Almost as soon as humans learned to write, they were devising ways to keep their messages secret. The Old Testament tells how the Prophet Jeremiah used a code word for Babylon. Julius Caesar often encrypted his messages by substituting letters three places farther on in the alphabet, i.e. D replaces A; E replaces B. But no matter how clever they may have been, the codes of antiquity-or of more recent times-rarely withstood the efforts of skilled code breakers. Mary Queen of Scots was ordered beheaded after Queen Elizabeth's chief spy intercepted and decoded Mary...
...sending secret messages by so-called onetime pads. These involve the use of keys-the instructions for encoding and decoding a message-made up of long lists of randomly picked numbers that determine the letters to be used as substitutes. Thus if the numbers were 7 and 11, the word "GO" might be encoded as "MY" (G + 6 more letters, O + 10 more letters). After each transmission, the key is changed, so that even if one message becomes available in decoded form, it will not help unravel the next coded communication. Nonetheless, onetime pads have shortcomings. Since both sender...
...created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled clothing. Neither will they eat honey because it is "too heavy on the bees...