Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another big problem is food. We are fed in the mess hall, not well but adequately. We cannot take food out of the mess, nor at present can we get K-rations if we miss a meal. So if I go to the theater or a concert, I have to miss dinner. This is probably good for me, but eventually some arrangement will have to be made to stock food here in the office. Please could Jack Manthorp or some other enterprising individual in the New York office examine the possibilities of sending in a major shipment of food...
...just the beginning. After the grey years of captivity, Chungking seemed full of wonders. Like other rescued prisoners, the General was too tense at first to relax. He and the group who arrived with him ate hungrily but shyly, clumsy with knives & forks after years of using only mess-kit spoons. They looked at magazines, full of unfamiliar expressions like G.I. and A.P.O., listened to references to battles, planes and Army outfits about which they knew nothing...
...officers at Atsugi were shepherded to a comfortable mess hall and given turtle soup, roast beef and egg sandwiches.* They had expected to sleep on the ground but were shown to comfortable beds with snowy linen sheets. Japanese guided the Americans to MacArthur's headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy...
Latter-Day Experts. Last week, back in wrecked Vienna, dressed in shorts and puffing clouds of blue smoke from his stub-stemmed pipe, Gedye was once again a familiar figure in his beloved city. He sat in the British mess hall where correspondents eat, listening to ex-police reporters who are now self-styled Mitteleuropa experts, expounding on Austrian politics. He spoke only when he was spoken...
More Light. There was little doubt, said unionists, that the question of veterans' rights was a "mess." Nor were employers, wide open to lawsuits, from both unions and veterans, better off. What was needed, they all agreed, was clarification of the Selective Service Act by Congress before its ambiguities set unions brawling with job-hunting veterans...