Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Pearl Harbor the Aggies were the first major U.S. college to go all-out on a twelve-month schedule, first to switch shops and laboratories to a 24-hour day. The four-year course was cut to two years, eight months. Doubling military instruction, the Aggies added Army mess management to animal husbandry, inaugurated courses in explosives. Architects shifted to camouflage. A. & M. organized Statewide courses for civilian defense...
...staff workers had run fish-cold eyes over the War Department, seeking out weak spots. When the State Department and Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Committee feuded, Harold Smith wooed them back to harmony. Before Presidential Adviser Samuel Rosenman reorganized war production, and cleaned up the defense-housing mess, he conferred chiefly with Smith. The executive orders with which President Roosevelt made and unmade war agencies, delegated power and took it away, were drawn up in Smith's office. And Harold Smith has the final say on Government bureau requests for funds...
...impatience for the day when his comrades might be somehow relieved. Lady Bataanin was with him, a reminder that kept his eyes blazing when he was out against the. Jap in the Australian area. The day never came. When he heard of the fall of Bataan one day at mess, he unashamedly wept for his youngsters, who had taken everything in their stride, who had talked of missing buddies as though they had gone out to lunch...
...rationalizing the divergence, assign it to a basic difference in the two nations' war psychoses. Britain, they say, profoundly believes that the war is being fought to preserve its economic institutions; the U.S. as profoundly believes that the post-war world is bound to be an economic mess...
...year's output (some 100,000,000-four times that many were imported from Norway, England, Germany and Japan). Said George Moore, chief of the War Production Board's sporting-goods unit: "We want to take care of the fellow who goes out to catch himself a mess of fish every once in a while...