Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the solution, the West Coast wanted one quickly. Its uneasiness was growing. In Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco, a battered mess of old metal dumped on a dock-the wreckage of Japanese planes and of U.S. planes destroyed by the Japs at Pearl Harbor-was a sinister reminder to West Coasters of what neglect and apathy can do in wartime. There was heard again the old muttered word, called up out of the smoky history of pistol battles, its syllables still rumbling like the horse hoofs of a posse ". . . Vigilantes...
...adopted strays won a Manhattan pet show prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight of birds and the chagrin of her fellow tenants; the bird-droppings make quite a mess. Says Mme. Hempel: "I am quite, quite foolish about animals...
...Army cookbook is full of advice to cook dough until it is a "delicate brown," to keep meat "succulent and tender." There are also plenty of suggestions for mess sergeants, who are responsible for adapting Army menus to the locales in which their troops serve. Although soldiers in their first six months of service gain an average 8 to 16 Ib., few of them are satisfied with the food that is dished up to them...
...target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess boys were heroes under fire. A British officer, said Captain Lovette, told him that neither at Dunkirk nor Crete had brave men fought better than they fought at Pearl Harbor...
...Curb Exchange, exiled himself to South America in 1940 after engaging in fee-splitting and kickbacks totaling over $1,000,000 in eight years (an infraction of the Curb's constitution). Six other Curb members involved were finally expelled after SEC began its own hearings on the mess. But Ringleader Cuppia himself got off with a penitent letter and a long, long trip...