Word: messes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be some time before the West Coast could untangle the mess created by a work stoppage of three months and get some 265 idle ships moving. There were still a number of problems to clear up, chief of which were wage discussions with Harry Lundeberg's A.F.L. seamen, who had had no work since no ships sailed. Said Lundeberg: "We have heard that the faucet is open and we mean to get ours...
...three yards before loaded trays were kicked from their hands. With casual sweeps of the hand, patrons were brushing glasses off onto the floor from the tables. Chairs were crushed under upturned tables and benches broken off from the walls. A sprinkling of catsup topped off the whole mess...
...conclusion is that world starvation is not around the corner. Man can make a mess of his food supply, as he can of anything else. He does not have to, however. The land is there, the hands to work it are there, the brains are there. If he uses his head he can eat hearty-indefinitely. He might even produce enough to help out Dr. Vogt's friends, the woodland caribou, the Florida manatee, the wolverine and the bighorn sheep. Unfortunately nothing can be done for the extinct Eskimo curlew...
Tacho shifted his paunch and glowered at the is-foot stuffed alligator across the room. "The man responsible for this mess is Arevalo, up in Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
...turns out that the two men are utterly helpless ninnies. Without a woman's guiding hand, they would doodle their lives away. Peggy's husband is ready to swap his teaching career for a mess of lettuce; the professor wavers on the brink of suicide. Both are rescued from their weaker natural instincts by the gay, brave, ginghamed Little Woman...