Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because Sterling had also agreed to supply I.G.'s Latin American market if I.G. itself could not deliver. In the fall of 1941 it brought down a walloping attack from Thurman Arnold. With the aid of its lawyer, ex-New Deal Fixer Tommy Corcoran, Sterling cleaned up its mess by 1) signing a consent decree; 2) agreeing to abrogate its German contracts once and for all and to compete with I.G. actively in Latin America...
Coleman Hawkins was the real hero of the day, practically saving the session singlehanded at a time when it looked as if it would be a ghastly mess. Without any apparent warming up, the "Hawk" launched into a terrific chorus and thawed out the audience. He played very restrainedly, without forcing his tone as he did when he first returned from Europe. As for the "Hawk's" ideas, they're more than any five men have the right to have...
Before they said their farewells, the 19th's men danced in the officers' mess with wives and girls, dined on "snaggletooth Texas steer whose rump is stamped 'Suzy-Q, approved,'" and toasted each other at the new Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly...
...situations where the WAVES and nurses, being women, would keep their hats on even though men would remove their caps (in the theater, or church, or at mess, for instance) it is presumed that the hat is not being worn as a badge of office, but in conformance to civilian rather than military custom--and in such instances the salute will not be given...
...like, what do they eat because they have to? To find the answer to this and many another delicate dietetic question, the Army detailed Master Sergeant Horace Scherwin and 50 other enlisted men. In a twelve-month they examined meals served to 2,474,362 men in 500 Army mess halls, measured the contents of countless garbage cans, clocked eating habits. By last week they were able to report that the U.S. soldier...