Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reclamation. At Fort Belvoir, Va., an Army supply sergeant found diapers on a laundry list, learned that one soldier carried them 1) to clean his rifle, 2) to polish his mess kit, 3) to dust his shoes, 4) to pad the inside of his helmet...
...captured airdrome a few miles behind the Eighth Army's forward line was a mess of ploughed furrows and Nazi mines one day. Four days later it was cleared of mines, the runways were ready for R.A.F. and U.S. planes. Munitions, gasoline and men moved up in a vast and orderly flow, steadily preparing for General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's next move against Marshal Rommel. U.S. bombers and fighters from Tunisia, approximately 575 miles northwest of the Eighth Army, joined the R.A.F. from Libya in a fierce attack on Tripoli. The Berlin radio interpreted the signs...
...something too spicy?" In another, soldiers staged a camp show, used cantaloupe to give feminine allure to their flat chests. In the last panel a tough Yank, spotting well-built Burma, yells: "Hey, you! Hurry it up. I gotta get all them melons back to th' mess hall...
...Beef for stews in one-inch chunks squeezes down 70%, hamburger bulk is reduced 55%. Puffed rice, voluminous as a pound of feathers, can be compressed 86%. Puffed rice, combined with powdered skim milk and sugar in a lozenge, can, with the addition of warm water, swell into a mess cup full of ready-to-eat breakfast food...
...They range in size from the small, separate Adams and Dunster kitchens which feed a thousand undergraduates jointly, to the so-called College group which feeds the other five Houses for a total of 1800 mouths. Eighteen hundred Naval Officers are fed in the Union and in the new mess hall across the river, while the Medical School and Business School feed 1100 more...