Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mankind, "They give birth astride of a grave." Beckett regarded himself as a sort of historian, a chronicler of misbegotten times. "I didn't invent this buzzing confusion," he said. "It's all around us, and . . . the only chance of renewal is to open our eyes and see the mess." Yet he had nothing of the reformer, no impulse toward public life. He rarely granted interviews, resolutely declined to discuss his works, rebuffed would-be biographers by saying his life was "devoid of interest." He even refused to show up to collect his 1969 Nobel Prize in literature -- an award...
...office was a mess, but it took just the morning to clear it up," said Ken Lafler, who works in Pound Hall and is office systems coordinator at the Law School...
They seemed to suggest that if we could all just understand that everyone had the story wrong and that we were blowing it way out of proportion, then, finally, they would be able to clear up this mess. Then we would all be one big happy family again. Neither they nor North House could be called sexist, and all this nastiness would go away...
...order to believe the Soviet Union is capable of waging and quite possibly winning a war against the West, one has to accept as gospel a hoary and dubious cliche about the U.S.S.R.: the place is a hopeless mess where nothing works, with the prominent and crucial exception of two institutions -- the armed forces and the KGB. A Kremlin that cannot put food on its people's tables can put an SS-18 warhead on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota, some 5,000 miles away. Even though 15% to 20% of the grain harvested on the collective...