Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours late. Each delay produced a paralyzing chain reaction. The day after the storm, a collision between two empty trains on the New Haven near Port Chester, N.Y. held up 15 following trains, packed with 3,000 commuters, for as much as eight hours. No sooner was that mess cleared up than two more derailments on successive days snarled the New Haven all over again. In jampacked stations along the coast, schedules and timetables became meaningless. Only a few trains held to the luxury of dining cars-and these soon ran out of everything, including water...
...social struggle which it dramatized is fobbed off with some anti-Semitic dialogue and a few shots of screaming headlines and howling mobs. What survives on the screen is no more than a scandal-but then it is a French scandal, and when it comes to making an exquisite mess of things, nobody can come near the nation that invented the galantine de poulet...
...weren't for you damn newspaper guys, we wouldn't have this mess. These people wouldn't even be here tonight...
Being a taxpayer and homemaker, I am very much interested in knowing why Defense Secretary McElroy needs eleven mess attendants attached to his office...
...busily sighted the bearings of each belt, buckle and bow. After one tense model marathon, the New York Herald Tribune's capable Eugenia Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 12) confessed: "I was a wreck by the end of the show, and to tell the truth, my notes are a mess...