Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British lion, awkward of late, last fortnight clumped his way into a minor diplomatic mess. Until recently the British Government forbade the playing of the Russian anthem, the Internationale...
...themselves into the economic life of the community," he forgets that the chief reason most Germans couldn't find work and finally took to the swastika is that the rest of the world was so blinded by nationalism as to turn central Europe into an impossible mess, and so stupid as to bring their own countries to the verge of revolt in the Great Depression...
First came Missouri's grey little Harry Truman, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the war program. Senator Truman told Mr. Roosevelt that he was going to rip the whole defense organization up the middle. His report would disclose that the production effort was an awesome mess...
...worked out. "I wonder," wondered the President's wife, "if Mr. Knudsen knows what hunger is-if any member of his family has ever gone hungry? The slowness of our officials in seeing ahead, in seeing the very obvious things that are developing, is responsible for the whole mess...
Right now it looks as if our victory in Europe is in the hands of the Red armies. what possible, basis are we going to have for setling the central European mess if we keep insisting that this is a battle of the free peoples? Do we propose to send missionaries of democracy first to Russia and then to all the now conquered countries, and when they have done their work set about making the peace? This is a fantastic course. It would mean either anarchy or more probably complete hostility of all Europe headed by the Russians...