Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen minutes later, dressed and shaved, Corporal Monson was bucking the strong head wind on his way to the Company mess. In half an hour he was back in the squad room, policing up around his bunk, making the bed, straightening out his steel wall locker. At 7:35 there was a whistle again. Out for inspection poured Company F of the gist Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron: a scanty 54 enlisted men out of an authorized strength...
...joint U.S. -British objectives in the Middle East [TIME, Dec. 16]: "One angry Briton said: I [Truman] has sold your oil for a mess of New York votes...
...Melilla. Then and later Barea heard legionaries speak with awe of the cold and murderous courage of an officer named Francisco Franco. He also learned of a cynical doctrine held by some military careerists: it would never do to relieve Spain-either by complete success or withdrawal-of the mess and waste of the Moroccan adventure...
...getting the oil out. The British see the Palestine problem against the background of the larger U.S.-British objective of playing along with the Middle East Arabs. When President Truman flayed Britain on the Palestine issue, one angry Briton said: "He has sold your oil for a mess of New York votes...
...increasingly uneasy bedfellows. Grossman, one of the latter group, was still sounding off in the New Statesman, of which he is assistant editor. Said the latest issue (commenting on the U.S. coal strike): "For Britain and British labor the moral seems to be that to be entangled in the mess of America's economic confusion spells disaster just as surely as to accept American dictation in an international policy that may fluctuate as much as the shares on Wall Street...