Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone who thinks a new prayer book [Feb. 9] will help us Anglicans should attend his nearest Roman Catholic Church next Sunday to see what a mess they made of their English translation. There are plenty of churches around for the semiliterate. Suppose somebody had tried to make Shakespeare or John Donne more readable...
...Americans, all nonmilitary volunteers, will operate from a barren hill in the Giddi Pass 30 miles east of the Suez Canal. In scarcely four weeks, the area has been converted into a self-contained Little America. Temporary barracks and a mess hall were flown in from the U.S., along with generators, electric fly catchers, Xerox copiers and even "Porta Potti" toilets. By September prefabricated concrete modules will be in place. Sand is even being shipped into the Sinai in a coals-to-Newcastle operation; the local sand is so salt-saturated that it is useless for cement mixing...
...such a mess, silence is golden. But it is also troublesome because Carey and Cunningham should be talking about all sorts of arrangements for the Democratic National Convention in New York City next July. So last week the Governor announced that Arthur Krim, the longtime party fund raiser who heads United Artists, would provide the "necessary liaison" for Carey, Cunningham and National Chairman Robert Strauss for the convention and other matters of mutual interest. That way, Hugh can rely on Arthur rather than Pat to be his front man with...
...count Philippe Bennett, fencing star among many other things, out of the Olympics. The Olympic coach has invited him to train in New York for the 1980 Olympics, and Bennett says, "I'll just keep on shooting at the Olympics until either I really mess up or else I make...
...real stars of the show will be the athletes living at the Olympic Village. Accommodations at the high-rise development on the Inn River will be spartan, but 60 cooks in the mess hall will see that none of the competitors go hungry. Each athlete is apportioned 6,000 calories a day of such dishes as Macaroni Bordelais and Ham Steak Hawaii; officials are rationed to 3,000-calorie menus. The following guide, based on reports from TIME correspondents, limns the essentials of each sport and spotlights some top competitors. Events are run under the metric system: a meter...