Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wounded fighting in the Canton army in 1923. Chiang made him an artillery instructor at Whampoa Military Academy (Chen took an instant dislike to a flashy young political instructor named Chou En-lai), then gave him the toughest combat assignments. Told to make order out of the postwar mess in Manchuria, Chen invited Manchurians to bring their complaints straight to him, and reportedly had 20 generals shot for stealing. Invalided south for a series of stomach-ulcer operations, he was ordered to Formosa to prepare for the Nationalist retreat, and arrived in the midst of much highhanded Nationalist treatment...
...secret of producing Cordon Bleu menus in such "Thoreau-going" surroundings. A six-course dinner to please the most discriminating gourmet bubbles away on the old-fashioned stove in the time it takes me to open a can of pork and beans. If F. & J. can clean up the mess afterward-unaided by plumbing or electricity-the mess of the Middle East is in safe and efficient hands...
From a conversation he overheard in the mess hall, he knew that the Dutch air force C-47 standing outside was about to take off for Australia. He tried to sneak aboard but found the plane door locked. As he circled the plane, looking for a place to hide, he spotted the two nacelle cavities that house the big wheels when the plane is in flight. He climbed up, crouched among the upper struts of one of the cavities and, praying he would not be discovered, waited for the takeoff...
...last week that House investigators pricked up their ears when they heard that his mills had sold the U.S. Army $2,255,000 worth of cloth in the last five years for uniform shirts and pants. (Also: $42,651 for green pool-table cloth, presumably used to cover Navy mess tables.) At the same time the investigators were asking Goldfine to bring to the committee, when he appears next week, some $770,000 in uncashed cashier's checks that they learned about from study of his records...
When Robert B. Anderson Jr. took over as Secretary of the Treasury about a year ago, the nation's finances were-as even retiring Secretary George M. Humphrey agreed-"in a mess." The Treasury had to refinance some $75 billion (28%) of the U.S. debt within a year, and the attrition -demands for cash-in refinancing operations had been running as high as an alarming 30%. Secretary Anderson set out to lengthen the average maturity of the federal debt, which had shrunk to 57 months, thus keep the Treasury from going to the market so often. He hoped...