Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quartered his officers in plushy villas, put Army vehicles at their beck & call. ¶ He quartered his enlisted men in crowded, ill-equipped barracks (in one there were only twelve showers for 700 men), fed them poorly in overheated mess halls...
...James M. Dunning, fellow in Public Benith Dentistry, was still puzzling through his ransacked residence at 23 Buckingham St., Cambridge, yesterday, without discovering anything missing in the mess...
...soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
...Indonesian mess was almost providential in its timing. Joyfully, the Security Council dropped the Greek situation to cope with a situation cut more to the U.N. size. With unprecedented speed the Council voted (8-0) a stern resolution: the Council "calls upon" The Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic "to cease hostilities forthwith." It further called upon the combatants to settle their disputes by arbitration...
...about the criminal mind. He never met a fingerman in his life, never reads mystery stories, spends his few off hours quietly at home with his wife, radio-&-cinemactress Pert Kelton, and their two children. "I figure I just have a talent for murder," he says. "Whenever I gotta mess a guy. up on the air, I just think of some s.o.b. that insulted me the other day, and then I grind my teeth and do what the script says just as if I was doing it to the guy who insulted me. Afterwards I really feel relieved. Gripes...