Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What this country needs is a pushbutton to end all pushbuttons−to send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
Questioned about the condition of the field, Coach Bruce Munro shook his head and murmured, "Look at it. Look at this mess...
...very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having shown how angry Jimmy can be, the play chiefly thereafter shows how personally irresistible he is. Perhaps a little concentration on human plight would have helped: it cuts deeper than Bohemian mess...
...typical modern American musical flounders around happily and loudly in the realm of brassy mediocrity. A star or two nearly inevitably thrusts his or her personality into the affair in order to please the expense accounters and fill up the marquee--and, of course, to drag the smiling mess along. There are occasionally a few minutes' worth of tolerable or colorful or amusing songs and/or dance routines. There is nearly never much of a plot, nor is there much acting...
...voters in 1950, reported 18,941 Duvalier ballots to 463 for Déjoie. A hard-working doctor who has spent years working to eliminate yaws in Haiti's backlands, Duvalier announced that he would promptly ask for a U.S. fiscal expert to clean up the mess in Haiti's bankrupt treasury...