Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near Siena at treetop level, released his delayed-action bombs just short of the mouth, pulled away in a vertical bank. The bombs popped into the tunnel like peanuts into the mouth of an urchin, and when they exploded they left the south end of the tunnel an impassable mess of rubble...
...Medical Officer at Fiji. For the first 40 years it was only a makeshift. In 1928, bulky, energetic Dr. Sylvester Maxwell Lambert, who spent 20 years in the South Pacific for the Rockefeller Foundation, persuaded the Foundation to help. In 1929, the Suva School dedicated a new dormitory and mess hall. Enrollment was increased from 16 to 40, extended to include non-Fijians. In the 1930s, pathological and bacteriological laboratories were added. In 1940 a European nurse started a nurses' school...
Field Trip. On a mild April Monday, as he had done each week of spring, General Bradley left his London headquarters to visit his troops in the field. Promptly at 8:15, having breakfasted on Lend-Lease powdered eggs, he stepped out of the officers' mess and into a waiting Cadillac. Sergeant Alex Stout, a black-haired young man who used to jeep the General around Sicily, sent the long black car purring southward...
...rescue crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
Somerset Maugham, always a discreet man, has been so imprudent as to live to a ripe age (70) when novelists are usually far past their prime. But, unlike some of his other books, The Razor's Edge is not a potboiler. Nor is it a mess of dotage. It deserves to rank after Of Human Bondage (1915) and The Moon and Sixpence (1919) as one of his three major novels...