Word: messe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beamish Vice President (the first to be married while in office) was as bubbling as ever. As the triumphant wedding music boomed out, hordes of twittering women converged on the entrance and television crews flicked on their lights. "I hate to go out there and face that mess," said the new Mrs. Barkley. "That's no mess, my dear," boomed the Veep. "That's the American people...
...bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five-Starred National Flag...
Three Brothers' Cleansers says it's the shirt lapels that suffer during the summer months, the shoulders during the winter. "Most of the mess comes from freshmen and sophomores," they added...
...soldiers of the Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...
...overwhelmed by the job of reconstructing the city's financial set-up. In the past, the hopelessly confused accounting has been the curse that Curley has placed on the head of his successors. The Boston voters elected the new mayor on the hope that he could untangle the Curley mess; with his experience as acting mayor and city clerk, Hynes has the background to satisfy this hope. But the job is ahead and the work, more than the wishes, of the Hynes supporters will be required to accomplish it successfully...