Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame for "the mess-up" in U.S.-Cuban relations by giving President Carter bad, inflammatory advice...
...honcho controlling RAMJAC is a shopping bag lady--she is too important to live luxuriously in public--who carries RAMJAC's important documents in the toes of her purple sneakers. She is, of course, from Cambridge, Mass. At the end of the novel, Walter finds himself in a legal mess concerning RAMJAC which will land him in jail once again. Yet, like all Vonnegut heroes, he still believes, like the rest of us, "that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool...
...what Ginn called "a tremendous mess and a real foul-up on the parts of ETS," many students nationwide never received the tickets listing the location of their test site guaranteeing them admission to the test...
...gonna leave your face a mess...
...company was still obliged to clean up its mess by Oct. 19. But the decontamination process was slow, and much time was spent in bickering with state officials over the amount of tritium lost. The company asked for a 13-month extension. A delay was permissible, but the danger uncertain. What to do? For Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt, 41, the answer was obvious and unprecedented: declare a state of emergency and call in the National Guard...