Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all men are washed before mess call and that they are shaved before drill call...
...Importance. Eloquent was Dr. Moody on the new importance of the chaplain. No longer must he double as canteen or mess officer, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director. Now he can concentrate on his spiritual work, aided by the Army's new mobile trailer chapels (there are only twelve so far), complete with altar, loudspeaker, vestments and altar furnishings, portable organ, Bibles, religious literature, other morale equipment. "In 1917," said Dr. Moody, "we were furnished a flag-a piece of blue bunting with a white cross on it. What else? Nothing. . . . It is estimated that 45% of the Army...
...commander of the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning. His rank kept him remote from the men of Company D, 68th Armored Regiment (Light). Yet, to all of them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into the line of march, practically...
...grey day seemed to break. Major Kengla whistled softly to himself. The men of Company D talked loud and merrily in the mess hall. Suddenly even the new lieutenant-an earnest young man in gleaming -boots and protruding spectacles -did not look wholly helpless. There was still life in Company...
Phase II. The fight over the executive secretaryship showed clearly that the harness hasn't yet begun to fit the horses. But the great mess of the NDAC was being cleared up, as by a giant vacuum cleaner. The stink of it had apparently taken a long time to reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott...