Word: messing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...picking up gossip at the Garrick Club and managed to have him blackballed. Dickens, who had been the subject of a flattering piece in the first issue, defended Yates, although he condemned the article and wrote that the entire incident, which had become a literary sensation, was "a frightful mess, muddle, complication and botheration." The incident definitely scarred Dickens' and Thackeray's relationship. Yates remembered it bitterly all his life, and in the issue of Time for January, 1880 (see cut) gave his own version of the old scandal...
...grimly wait-&-see but unpanicked public gave no more than passing notice to half a dozen books on the implications of atomic warfare, was more curious about Frank Scully's mess of conjecture and hearsay on Behind the Flying Saucers. A more legitimate curiosity about six men on a raft in the Pacific elevated to best-sellerdom a rousing record of adventure in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. In the midst of the new confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent...
...sheet. "Made it, ch?" He smiled. "I hope you haven't lost your meal ticket." I had been issued a meal ticket, worth 90 cents at the Army Base cafeteria; I hadn't lost it. "That ticket is a good deal," said the private. "That's not for mess hall crud, that's for real food." I thanked him, put on my tie, turned in my forms, and went down to the cafeteria. Ninety cents at the Army Base buys coffee, a lukewarm turkey sandwich, and some chemically yellow lemon meringnopic...
...turned right, Randall would have been neatly dispatched in a German raid on a British strongpoint. Author Forester, whose Captain Horatio Hornblower is one of the best historical romances in the language, would thus have been spared the shame of scattering Hornblower's wake with a fictional mess for the gulls; and poor Randall would have been spared a life that is not much better than death, anyway...
...tried to calm the excitement. Said he: "The French high command has got the situation in hand . . . There is absolutely no justification for any panic or for talk of catastrophe." The cabinet called on energetic General Alphonse Juin, French Resident General in Morocco, to look into the Indo-China mess. Juin's first act last week was a telephone call to Bao Dai, after which Bao. Dai announced he would fly to Saigon as soon as possible...