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  • The economy sank in 2012, just as the Titanic did in 1912 - dot dot dot-dash dash dash-dot dot dot - but no one was listening.

    Alan Black: A Daft History of the Next Decade 2009

  • Like an old-fashioned Morse signal, the cryptic and dot-dash punctuation somehow serves to emphasize and amplify the distress.

    Teresa, Bright and Dark 2007

  • Like an old-fashioned Morse signal, the cryptic and dot-dash punctuation somehow serves to emphasize and amplify the distress.

    The Dogmatic Doubter 2007

  • He gradually refined all of that and then started developing his famous dot-dash code, sending not V ` s but dots and dashes representing not numbers but letters of the alphabet.

    Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse 2004

  • The machine had been secretly developed by the Underwood Typewriter Company33 to convert the unique dot-dash radiotelegraphy code of the Imperial Japanese Navy to Latin-alphabet equivalents.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Howard used his Elliott-Underwood code typewriter to convert the Japanese naval kana dot-dash to message text.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • The machine had been secretly developed by the Underwood Typewriter Company33 to convert the unique dot-dash radiotelegraphy code of the Imperial Japanese Navy to Latin-alphabet equivalents.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Included among the gunzoku were the civilian radio operators of the tankers, who enjoyed “talking” with marine radio operators of other nations in the dot-dash language of International Morse Code.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Howard used his Elliott-Underwood code typewriter to convert the Japanese naval kana dot-dash to message text.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Included among the gunzoku were the civilian radio operators of the tankers, who enjoyed “talking” with marine radio operators of other nations in the dot-dash language of International Morse Code.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

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