Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also clear by last week that Germans, individually and in the mess, reacted to bombing pretty much as the British did in the fall of 1940 and the spring of 1941. They died by the thousands; they suffered; they moaned to their soldiers at the front. In the target cities they lived in a hell worse than London's worst. But, up to this week, there has been no substantial evidence that the German people have yet been brought to the cracking point...
...over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden clothes, they were given thick, white blankets stamped U.S.N. Soon mess stewards were passing hot coffee to Americans and Germans alike...
...mess call was sounded and upper was served, cafeteria style. After upper a real old-fashioned song-fest in the parlor of Briggs House with new and old hits was featured. At 2045 the men stroke out with that real old-timer "Good fight Ladies" and proceeded to go home...
...title of your column The Presidency, at least insofar as the May 10 issue is concerned, is a misnomer. Why not make it "Pan the President?" The problems which necessarily plague the leader of a great democracy in wartime you term a "mess." Then, from out of the depths of your infallible wisdom, you conclude-"The mess was, in the last analysis, of his own making...
...superstructure is bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still...