Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those vital instruments of war, the combat infantryman's feet and stomach. There is no excuse, he holds, for poorly cooked chow, and many a G.I. who had heard of Krueger as a tough, tyrannical ogre has been better fed after a Krueger visit to the company mess. If he sees a G.I. limping, Krueger wants to know why. If the trouble is a misfit shoe, the man's officer is rebuked for not having seen to it that his men were properly outfitted...
...class outlook has improved 300 percent, the over-all alertness increased, and morale advanced considerably since the advent of the 0840 morning rising. Those interested in long run results should take note. Besides, Charlie Sayler reports that as a result Cowie is working practically on a cabin mess basis--and still we have liver. Things are tough all over...
...putting the Palm Beach Post-Times to bed. Instead of merely editing the last-minute news, he felt like making some of his own. He banged out a 650-word article and slapped it on Page One. Sample: "Half-drunk women heard their drunker men tell why this bloody mess, so far, far away would be over before another New Year. . . . They had been in combat-with their draft boards. . . . They had their stripes-deferment stripes. . . . They wondered when all the killing would be over and got drunk doing...
Bleary-eyed, but confident of unsets all around, we sit dreaming of a white Christmas. Yes, before this literary mess again hits print old Santa will have come and gone. Trees are scattered round the unit here and there, but "Mitch's" individual little tree seems to take top honors. A desk job, "Mich" is proud of his spirit...
...president of a State university, must be primarily a politician, only secondarily an educator. At Wyoming, polished, personable President Morrill proved his mettle by cleaning up a political mess which had brought university morale to an alltime low. He also persuaded Wyoming's politically potent ranchers that cultural subjects at Laramie were not just academic woolgathering. So swiftly did his fame spread that in the past year he has been offered ten other university presidencies. Last week he accepted the eleventh offer: from big University of Minnesota (peacetime enrollment...