Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporter Basque knocked on door after door; always someone else was in charge. "Bande d'imbeciles/" he growled, "Pack of fools!" At length he found himself shunted back where he had started. "Quelle pagaie!-What a mess!" he cried, and left...
What U.S. missionaries know about the Far East, Chaplain Stroup complains, is not being made use of by the U.S.: "The truth is that [the] silk-hatted 'realists' have made a mess of things. . . . Our State Department 'experts' on Far Eastern Affairs have no better grasp of the problems of the Orient than have many of our outstanding missionaries. ... It was the missionary . . . who for years urged aid to the desperately struggling Chinese. . . ." What's more, "the loss of many American lives and long months of battle might have been avoided if the 'wisdom...
...table was an ordinary folding mess table. On the September morning, in Tokyo Bay, when Japan's representatives were due aboard the Missouri to surrender, somebody discovered at the last minute that there was no table on hand big enough for the ceremonious signing. A table from the enlisted men's mess was carted topside and set up on the Missouri's teak-planked veranda deck. The ceremony over, the table was taken back to the mess where it belonged. A dozen men had eaten spaghetti at it before the ship's officers shouted, "Where...
...First Secretary of the Chilean Embassy in Washington was giving a cocktail party. The talk was of Virginia hams and the weather. Suddenly a young reporter spilled his Scotch & water into a girl's lap. Wailed the girl: "What a mess!'' Said Host Fernando Ortuzar, who had been looking elsewhere: "Which mess, madam, London or Argentina...
...Hawley found things in pretty much the mess that VA critics have described: VA hospitals were overcrowded,* understaffed and mired down in politics. Said he: "It was a mighty sick thing we took over, and there aren't going to be any miracles...