Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence Day, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee presented to the House of Commons an Indian independence bill. It was, said the bespectacled, scholarly Earl of Listowel, last Secretary of State for India, a "nice, neat, tidy little bill." The bill was certainly neater than the mess Indians will try to clear up before the British leave on August...
...have made a mess of the world," observed Novelist Pearl Buck, "what a mess women have made of men. Women do nothing because they know nothing and care nothing. . . . The time has come to enlarge the home and include the world...
Little, senior in rank among the prisoners, had been put in charge of their mess, made answerable to the Japs for camp discipline and food supplies. Those who hated him said he was a little dictator. Said one of his accusers: "He loved rules; even Japanese rules." They accused Little of cultivating the favor of his Jap captors by being their camp informer. The darkest charge of all: as a result of his reports to his captor-bosses, an Army enlisted man was beaten to death and a Marine Corps corporal was starved to death by the Japs; others were...
...Nice Mess." Knight writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...tables. Sample, from a satisfied Minnesota reader: "On June 1, I went fishing around 7 p.m. The major fishing period [on your table] that night was at 10 p.m. I didn't get a strike until 9:45. From that time until 10:30 I caught a nice mess of crappies, weighing around two pounds each, and the sun fish were extra large." News like that makes Knight glow all over...