Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were the Nazi Platoon-30 German-speaking, noncommissioned Armored Forcemen who prey on trainees out on long marches and overnight maneuvers. Faces blackened, signaling among themselves by owl hoots, the raiders fire blanks, use whistle bombs. The platoon averages five day or night raids a week. It specializes in mess sergeants (thereby canceling dinner) and tired stragglers...
Because Winston Churchill was not there, he missed the returning King, who had arrived from Africa before schedule at an airdrome somewhere in England, gone off to the airport's officers' mess ten minutes before Churchill arrived. Back into his car climbed the Prime Minister to drive off to the mess, receive a royal joshing...
...dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
Pigs v. Corn. Governors Dewey and Schricker were not exchanging mere pleasantries. As every farmer knew, the pig-corn crisis was typical of the entire U.S. food mess...
...entire valley is crisscrossed by vital rail lines, virtually every Ruhr raid has struck hard at transport facilities. All the valley's traffic is now badly disrupted. Wholesale evacuation of refugees from the bomb-strafed centers has further complicated the mess. As the Ruhr produces roughly three quarters of Germany's coal, four fifths of her coke and two thirds of the nation's raw iron and steel, the effect of transport disruption on German industry as a whole is great...