Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to his constitutional rights against testifying. Andy May, back in his old Kentucky home, was reportedly a very sick man. To most U.S. citizens it was not so amazing that one high-placed man had engaged in deep connivance with the Garssons. The extraordinary thing about the unsavory mess was the fact that so many high-placed Army officers and Administration leaders had so easily fallen into...
TIME (July 8) ... says that at Bikini "the carrier Independence was ... a shambles." A mess indeed, but since there were no men on it and at most a few goats, was it a bloody mess? Again . . . "In the Far East transportation ... is a shambles." Does your correspondent mean that train and plane wrecks are frequent and gory, or merely that he found it difficult to get to Shanghai...
...said FORTUNE magazine this week, after a long hard look at the nation's airlines (What's Wrong with the Airlines). Except for scenery and safety, and the latter is an increasingly big "question mark," FORTUNE found nearly every phase of air travel in a mess. Examples...
...must add to the government allotment in order to meet living costs have been forced to readjust strained budgets in order to simplify University bookkeeping. The stream of men petitioning for extensions, the loans, the red tape, the confusion, the added mental burden in face of the price mess, would all be avoided if the term bills could be aligned with the Public Law payments...
...doing so, she has wound fact into such a mess of taffy prose that there is no tasting the original flavor of the personalities. Luckily for the reader who wants to know what really happened, Historian R. Gerald McMurtry, who is an instructor and director of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., retells the unadorned facts in an "appendix" which is almost as long as and far better than Olive Carruthers' novel. It reprints a letter Lincoln wrote in 1838, which tells his version of the story...