Word: messing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...showed a burst of energy last week. The President grappled with the problem of the nation's debilitated military strength. The State Department moved on a new tangent into the mess of the Middle East. In collaboration with Britain and France, U.S. policymakers outsmarted Russia at Trieste. Meanwhile, some private citizens seized upon and wielded a propaganda weapon which might be as sharply effective as anything so far contrived in official quarters...
Something Blue. Dzerzhinsky was succeeded by another aristocrat, Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky. Before the revolution Menzhinsky wrote a prophecy: "If Lenin ever reaches power in fact, and not in imagination, he will make a mess of it, the like of one made by Czar Paul I. ... Leninists are a clan of political gypsies, with a strong voice and a love for wielding the knout, imagining that it is their inherent right to serve as coachmen for the laboring masses...
...Czech move. Instead of getting France to join last week in the kind of protest note that helped Hitler to power, France might have been induced to stop stalling on the question of Western German industry. Two U.S. Army divisions to Greece-with orders to clean up that mess-might have convinced the Italians that the U.S. was a friend worth having. People who live in threatened nations (and who doesn't?) need more than food; they need to have some assurance that the U.S. intends to win the peace. Paul Verdon, a Parisian restaurant keeper, spoke for millions...
...British could be persuaded to police the partition could hope no longer. The British would be out by May 15, and could hardly wait for the day to come. The U.S., judging from Austin's speech, had no idea of what to do next with the bloody mess it had stirred...
...board set out to find a new superintendent of schools. They hired one, fired him; hired him again, fired him again. In the midst of the hiring & firing, Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler, fed up with Hamtramck's scandals, told Hamtramck to "clean up the school mess" or the state would take over the school system. Just to make sure, he sent Clair Taylor, an able assistant in the Department of Public Instruction, to see that the board picked a superintendent who could be trusted. "We're on the spot," President Frank L. Piasecki told his board...