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Word: messing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer bother to hide their affiliations with the "Markos Mountain Government" (as the Moscow radio called it). But the announcement had been adroitly timed to follow the break-up of the London conference; it was supposed to convince lukewarm supporters of the Marshall Plan that Europe's mess could never be cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Out in the Open | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...called 'the largest monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June 1944, and left their high-heeled footprints in the soft cement outside the Brigade Headquarters mess. This monument remains, to the puzzlement of the tribesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAZIRISTAN: Recessional | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Chief staple: poi, a fermented paste made from taro root. "And an unseductive mixture it is," wrote Mark Twain, who nevertheless was fascinated by the native method of eating it: "The forefinger is thrust into the mess and stirred quickly around ... the head is thrown back, the finger inserted in the mouth and the delicacy stripped off and swallowed-the eye closing gently, meanwhile, in a languid sort of ecstasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Knock on the Door | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Mess of Pottage. In Moorhead, Minn., Bill Hersog opened a can of soup, found inside it: 1) soup, 2) a one-dollar bill, 3) four fives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...hints that Pakistan might turn to Russia for financial help. And such hints, in turn, might be connected with reports that Pakistan would ask Washington for a loan. By last weekend, however, Washington had received no such request, and no Pakistan official had offered any public solution of the mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Sick | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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