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In others, they appeared to refer to the woman Summers was attracted to by a code name: “peril.”

The agency assigned Penkovsky a code name, Hero.

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Southwest began testing new boarding months before assigned seating was announced using the code name Project USA.

The latter is salient because the name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA-funded project that Ellison worked on.

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The code name for the massive operation to catch Miller, in the summer and fall of 1984, was “Whipworm,” a reference to an intestinal parasite.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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