Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is proof of a painfully evident point: in the extremely important field of Romantic piano music, the careful planning that went into the production of many classical recordings has vanished. Incompetent pianists mess up important works while competent ones are idle, and great music remains unrecorded while inconsequential works fill every store shelf...
Catching the student body outside the mess hall, the aviator unleaded runners reading: "Sports columnist predicts Holy Cross defeat. We'll back him up on Saturday...
...Your article on Truman's initiation into the shellbacks states: "The 350 shellbacks aboard [the Missouri]" etc. [TIME, Sept. 22]. Now, as it probably takes 350 "swabbies" to serve officers' mess alone, and as it was a northward trip, just how in hell did the rest of the crew get south of the equator without crossing...
...Call. When General Omar Bradley took over V.A. in 1945, he offered Dr. Hawley an unattractive job. Veterans' medicine, under fire from Congress and the press, was a mess of red tape, indifference, discouraged patients, scarce equipment, underpaid doctors. Major General Hawley, third in a line of Indiana family doctors, had been chief surgeon of the ETO, and he felt "called." He wanted not only to clean up V.A., but to give veterans the best medicine the U.S. could offer...
...reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...