encryption schemes is called Fish, and the Colossus machine is being built specifically to break it.
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Half an hour ago, as Epiphyte Corp. was gathering in the lobby, a big black Mercedes came in, fresh from the airport. 747s come into Kinakuta four times a day, and from the time that a person presents himself at the registration desk of his luxury hotel, you can figure out which city he flew in from. These guys came in from Los Angeles. Three Latino men: a middle-aged fellow of great importance, a somewhat younger assistant, and a palooka. They were met in the lobby by the solitary fellow who showed up late yesterday with the cellphone.
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This is dry humor, and is received as such by everyone in the room; at this point in the war, a U-boat could no more run up the English Channel than it could travel up the Mississippi, sink a few barges in Dubuque, and make its escape.
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Nipponese Army-speak for 'retreat.'
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It goes without saying that the Finns have to have their own sui generis brand of automatic weapon.
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This phrase is a Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe parody.
