Word: snafuing
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...translating "snafu" (positive) in a slightly bowdlerized form as "situation normal, all fouled up," and "tarfu" as "things are really fuddled up" (TIME, Nov. 30), you have overlooked the much more prevalent comparative form of "susfu," which we will for the sake of clarity as well as purity interpret as "situation unchanged, still fudged...
...Snafu," pronounced "snaffoo"-a good, grumbling Army word, now has a superlative. Snafu, politely translated, means "situation normal, all fouled...
...Snafu is when the supply ship arrives and the stuff on the bottom should have been on top. Snafu is when radio receiving sets arrive at a jungle camp without batteries. Snafu is when a regiment unloads its trucks overseas and finds most of them so worn that they are ready to fall apart. Snafu is when the yellow-fever vaccine gives everybody jaundice; when the planes cannot fly because spare parts ordered four months ago never show up; when headquarters orders red crosses painted on the hospital just after it has been meticulously camouflaged. Snafu is when a Seattle...
...Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu.* Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu. For months the people and their leaders had pussyfooted around the twin horrors. There were orders and counter-orders. All were different. The people, numb with bewilderment, choked with wrath, gave...