Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the march in six days on one mess kit of rice. Other Americans made the march in twelve days, without any food whatever...
Only two of the nine Liberators in Ben's "Eager Beaver" squadron came back. The sight of empty bunks and mess lines haunted him; he could not sleep for three nights. Yet when his prescribed 25 missions had been fulfilled, he turned down a chance to fly home, volunteered instead for an extra five...
...Warden Duffy and Mutual's Pacific Coast affiliate, the Don Lee Network, first agreed to give the program a try, two years ago, San Quentin wags referred to the broadcast as "Concerto in the Clink." One inmate, looking over the crowd at the first broadcast in the prison mess hall, observed: "Those boys are lucky. This is one audience that can't walk...
...Then the plane leveled off a little. I took off my chute and went forward to the pilot's compartment. The radio room was a mess, every loose thing smashed and thrown all over the place...
...flatly stated, in half-page newspaper ads in Manhattan and Cleveland, that this major operation would leave the company $2,826 in the red for the year. He murmured darkly to reporters that the "Roosevelt administration is flirting with revolution," predicted that soldiers would come home to "the worst mess in the nation's history" if industry is not left enough funds to provide postwar jobs. Certainly, he affirmed, there would be no jobs at Jack & Heintz if the renegotiation board had its way. Furthermore, Jack explained that the $75,000 each collected by him and Vice President Ralph...