Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bored technicians behind the dials, keeping the pitch of sound in hand, as it goes on the wires to a hundred cities and off the antennae to a hundred million ears. It blats in the taxi, it roars over the public-address system, it speaks in the mess hall, in the midnight coffee stand; and it flops against the screen door, freshly folded, in the early morning...
...Backward. By August 1918 a mixed collection of 200 planes was able to launch a mass bombing attack on a German advanced airfield. Unorthodox were the tactics of two pilots who landed on the field, fired machine guns into the officers' mess, took off again safely. Unwritten laws, such as wining & dining captured pilots and never shooting up an enemy plane that had been forced to land, were usually observed by both sides. Flowers floated down after an enemy pilot had been killed. Messages were sometimes dropped by German pilots, requesting clothes for some fallen Britisher who had crashed...
...Chester Davis moved in to straighten out the mess, his chief worries were: 1) raise the nation's food production 8% over last year's record levels; 2) finesse farm-bloc tricks calculated to wreck the Administration's anti-inflation fight...
...best brains, had sold the War Department the idea: if workers could fraternize with soldiers on soldiers' terms, there might be greater effort on the assembly lines. In Atterbury, Reuther led his 250 shop stewards and committeemen to waiting combat carriers. In the Sard's mess halls the newcomers dined heartily; marched to barracks. Lights went...
...very last morning of School. so while we sit at our desks surrounded by half-filled cruise boxes with our heads in a whirl of personal travel problems and considerations of to ship or not to ship, we try and try to concentrate on how to solve a mess treasure's messes, and how to set up housekeeping for Lulubelle Noble and her Lieutenant Commander. Privately, we're already feeling a little apologetic towards our instructors to whom will fall the thankless job of correcting those final masterpieces of ours. We did so want to leave a good impression...