Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S. Missouri steamed northward through blue, tropical seas, Harry Truman relaxed. Every day he was up early, tramping the decks for an early morning constitutional. He prowled and poked around the "Mighty Mo's" intricate innards, inspected the enlisted men's mess, chatted with sailors...
CONGRATULATIONS ON ACCURATE REPORTING OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF HAROLD E. STASSEN. . . . [HE] PULLED MINNESOTA OUT OF A MESS SIMILAR TO THE ONE IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES FINDS ITSELF TODAY. HE CAN DO THE JOB NATIONALLY AS HE DID IN MINNESOTA...
Playtime. In Louisville, Norma and Charlotte Eppihimer broke a neighbor's window, entered, smashed two sets of china, emptied the refrigerator on the kitchen floor, basted the mess with mustard, scattered the contents of some bedroom dressers, built a fire on the livingroom floor, knifed a chicken, let the mule out of the pasture, and painted the family cat & dog green...
...much chicken-in general and saluting in particular that Leghorn G.I.s had nicknamed their main street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp at Pisa, where G.I. prisoners "get the sweatbox for making a wrong turn. [It] is full of delightful [punishment] routine like cleaning a mess kit with a needle, or walking for hours squatting on the hams and making duck noises...
Last week President and onetime Physician Hertzog was calmly prescribing for the colds of palace callers. The barefooted Indians still swarmed unconcerned past the palace windows. Cracked Juan Pacheco, a cholo fruit vendor: "I know nothing about this mess, but all politicians are cut with the same scissors. They would give their necks to stay in power-and maybe they will...