Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to keep up the surveillance, even though they appeared to be concerned just with freeing "women from the humdrum existence of being only a wife and mother." In 1941, the FBI began an intensive probe of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, after 15 black mess stewards in the Navy protested against racial discrimination. For 25 years, the bureau hunted for signs of Communist influence in the N.A.A.C.P., although a report in the first year of the investigation said the organization had a "strong tendency" to "steer clear of Communist activities." There were more chilling examples...
...Collier sure can do math, and I know you can't mess with the numbers, because figures don't lie. And I know most Houses can't have people living in living rooms like Mather can, because they would lose their privacy--people in Mather living rooms have plenty of privacy, long as no one wants to use the phone, or the refrigerator, or as long as no body walks in or out of the front door, or as long as no body wants to have a party, or play four-way bridge, or watch TV, or play some music...
...signed the first recall petition. But the anti-Rizzo legions still face the difficult task of gathering 145,000 valid petition signatures within 60 days for a recall referendum. The odds are against Rizzo's being unseated, but there is no doubt that he is in the worst mess of his political career...
...yachtswomen navigated past some unusual obstacles on their way to a second-place finish in the regatta. Saturday's first race was interrupted by the Radcliffe and Wellesley lightweight crews, and Sunday brought hailstones and 40-degree temperatures. "We really had a mess on the river," Mack said yesterday...
...straighten out the mess, Portugal's new democratically elected government will have to take some tough measures that may make things worse before they get better. Basket-case industries like textile mills and electronics may be allowed to go under. Further import controls may be imposed, accompanied by a large devaluation of the escudo. "This country has to learn to work again," says Raul de Almeida Capela, a director of the Banco Portuguès do Atlántico. After the two-year political free-for-all, that may not be an easy task...