Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers, unarmed, went aboard the cruiser Eugenio de Savoia. They were courteously received by Admiral Bagliria's successor in command, Admiral Romulo Olivia, and fed the best dinner they had eaten in months. Accustomed to the sparse quarters on British ships, they admired the Admiral's sumptuous mess and the tiled bathrooms of the Italian officers' quarters. The British officers heard an Italian officer say: "The Germans make big mistakes. The Italians make little ones, but lots of them. We are not very good at anything...
Last winter Mary was elevated to the rank of second subaltern, which pays her about $12 a week, before taxes. At her ack-ack battery she shares a room in a camouflaged wooden hut with another ATS officer. On duty she eats in the officers' mess. Drinks are available, but Mary seldom has one. The battery has a hockey field near the barracks. Mary plays inside forward...
...Bermuda cure is the gentle placing of the palm of the hand or the foot upon the Gargantua and sweeping up the resultant mess...
...present, Mr. Welles is staying, but his friends reported him sick of the whole mess...
...revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing to urge frustrated Irish students to rebel against "print-suckled hacks who have learned Irish in their youth at the point of a strap, and who have made such a mess of their lives that they can exist only by correcting examination papers." This line is always good for letters...