Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor crisis arose on the trip to Yalta when the President observed his 63rd birthday. The President's chefs had baked a cake; so had the cooks for the officers' mess. It looked as though one group of chefs would be disappointed, until Daughter Anna Boettiger solved the dilemma. She ordered three more cakes, of varying sizes. The cakes were piled one on top of the other. The first four were labeled First Term, Second Term, Third Term, Fourth Term. On the top cake was a huge question mark. Wrote Correspondent Cornell: "It produced plenty of laughs...
...their meticulously tidy barracks, they hang up an occasional picture of Hitler. (U.S. prisoners in Germany enjoy the privilege of hanging whatever pictures they please.) More often the Germans have pictures of their families, the Goethe deathmask and Varga girls. They decorate their mess halls with elaborate paintings-the Alps, German heroes, busty girls. Across one day room an artist has painted a group of naked women, on the wall opposite the stern admonition "Ein guter Soldat muss verzichten koennen." (A good soldier must learn to do without...
...offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers. The royal servants continued to mistake the ship's Negro mess boys for slaves of the U.S. Navy. (Slave traders plying across the Red Sea have for centuries sold Negroes into slavery in Arabia...
...Tobacco Road Gang was not discouraged. They threatened camp officials with violence. To underline their defiance they overturned mess-hall tables loaded with food, invaded the storeroom and ripped open bags of flour, smashed eggs and jars of mess supplies and dumped beans, rice, coffee onto the floor. Once they broke into the camp store and destroyed food and soft drinks. Camp Manager Karl Walz reported: "They said they were seeking an outlet for their frustration...
...started when Richard C. Patterson Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to the exiled Yugoslav Government in London, delivered a U.S. note to 21-year-old King Peter II. On at least two counts this note was historic: 1) it precipitated an unholy international mess; 2) it was the first specific application of the principle laid down by President Roosevelt in his recent state-of-the-nation message (TIME, Jan. 15)-that the U.S. now wants to see that liberated Europe's temporary (or "provisional") governments do not become permanent tyrannies...