Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mess, Anyhow...
...Said an officer of the Postal Service: "I know for a fact that in the middle of a battle, with stuff dropping all around them, men will put the mail call ahead of the mess call...
...shattered and depleted convey nosed into Kola Bay, down to the Tulema River, and Murmansk. Crewmen on Haskell's ship, who were lounging around the mess galley while awaiting their boat's turn to be unblessed, were suddenly shaken by a terrific explosion. Rushing on deck to man the guns against air attack, they found that the explosion, which struck about number four batchway, was not a bomb but a floating mine...
...Mess Matters. At Camp Adair, Ore., Major Hosiah J. Osborn, assistant commandant of the 9th Service Command School for Bakers & Cooks, came out against K.P. duty as punishment, branded it injurious to the dignity of the kitchen. At Gowen Field, Idaho, the bugler, woolgathering, pursed his lips at 11 p.m. for taps, blew the wrong call, sent some 5,000 men scrambling for the mess hall...
...Listen, all you cats and fine chicks, I want you to dig a mess of this jive. Because I want to hip you to my buddy-boy, Hollywood Al. He knows those fine hip styles you all like so much-that extra-wide knee 28, 29, 30 inches and that peg bottom way down to 14 inches-that are really a killer. . . . When you buy in Hollywood Al's Pants Shop you are buying from a hip cat who knows what it's all about because he's been around plenty...