Word: messing
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...