Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Augean stables of the defense program had been cleansed before, but they were still in a mess...
...Candidates had to comment on such propositions as these: i) "The course of history is fixed and it is beyond the power of any individual to change it." 2) "The last generation got us into this .mess, and we can't do anything about...
...night last week an explosion rattled the windows of the inn where Dormoy lived. Behind the broken door of his bedroom, Dormoy lay dying on the floor, his head a bloody mess. After he died, the police who were supposed to guard him found fragments of a clockwork bomb under his bed. His enemies had got revenge...
...days before, the Pact that ended the five-week Syrian War had been merely initialed by Vichy's Brigadier General Joseph Antoine Sylvain Râoul de Verdillac, who went to Acre in Palestine for the armistice talks* held in the officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought...
Despite the generosity of the original British terms, the neck-in-noose Government at Vichy bleated of dishonor, made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap. After thanking the Vichy forces who took part in the campaign, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain declared to Syria's civilians: "France is going to suffer an eclipse in the Levant...