Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces of battleships as well as carriers to bombard the Japanese coast. "I had a tremendous steamroller-I could do anything I damned pleased," he said, but the Navy regarded him no more for his victories than for legends about his brilliant staff ("the Dirty Tricks Department"), his casual mess ("This is a pretty rough bunch; we don't stand on rank"), his inability to make speeches to his men that sounded more inspiring than: "I've never been so damned proud of anybody...
Returning from a 68-day world jaunt a month ago to find his country an economic mess and in political disarray, President Sukarno of Indonesia surrendered to army pressure by reviving the dictatorial 1945 constitution and appointing to his powerful new "inner" Cabinet not a single Communist Party member (TIME, July 20). Last week the Communists, who still claim 1,500,000 members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that...
...farmers are uneasy about the surplus mess, but they are so wary of drastic measures to cope with it that most farmers "prefer to drift along with things as they are," bad as they are. "I don't like farming for the Government," admitted a troubled Minnesota wheat farmer. "I know it's wrong. But it's not for me to figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell...
Another innovator was ex-Army Mess Sergeant Maurice Sullivan (now married to the daughter of a Chinese grocer) who combined with other small grocers in Oahu to buy food stocks by carload lot direct from mainland suppliers. Soon he eliminated Big Five middlemen, who had long controlled virtually all imports from the mainland, is now the owner of the modernistic, eleven-store Foodland chain of supermarkets...
...estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess. The courtesan, on the other hand, was elegant, intelligent, well informed and equipped by temperament and training for the management of men and money...