Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having just had a fire ourselves, we looked around for our hair-shirt to throw in the sodden mess, and found that we had indeed been suffering barely discernable pricks of conscience. Having disposed of these, we find ourselves much more tolerant of the world. Indeed, we feel slightly euphoric...
Gropius called attention to the discrepancy between "the high intellectual standards of this University and the haphazard mess that makes up its environment...
...Americans who writhed most were the other leaders of organized labor, who feared that what was going on and what was disclosed might give all of labor a bad name. "We are in Gethsemane," said one A.F.L.-C.I.O leader. "We can't do a thing until this mess is cleared...
Jock had bravely led the battalion in war, but barracks life is another matter. He is as full of guts, and as hard to take, as a haggis. He sows as much terror among his subalterns as he ever did among the enemy, and runs his mess on lines calculated to make dinner with the Macbeths and Banquo's ghost seem like afternoon tea. And because he had been a ranker who had risen from the gutters of Glasgow, he is a figure of awe and almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat...
...Servan-Schreiber tells, in dramatic narrative form (a legalistic precaution against military inquiry), of a French patrol which is ordered to get the killers of a pro-French Arab, finds a truck with five Arabs in it, and kills all five on suspicion. That night in the officers' mess, Captain Julienne (newly arrived in Algeria) suggests: "It is perhaps bad practice to kill innocent...