Word: messing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper-man for the job. And just as Hammarskjold was preparing to dispatch a 15-man African and Asian conciliation commission to seek a fresh approach to the whole mess, the U.N. Congo chief, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, sent back urgent word: Don't let them come yet; it would only create more chaos...
...Prisons. The drawbacks to life in this dynamic workers' paradise are many. The apartment houses exist amid shacks, slums and vacant lots that still make up most of the city and never appear in the propaganda. Gaunt and suspiciously prisonlike on the outside, the barracks-like apartment blocks have mess halls and community toilets but neither heat nor running water in the apartments themselves. But by rigid regimentation and the help of technicians from Eastern Europe, Communist North Korea has made impressive economic progress of a sort. Ninety-five percent of the peasants are herded into Soviet-style communes. Factory...
While the Amman radio beat the drums with promises of "big news" about the case (and Cairo Radio mumbled embarrassedly), Lieut. Madani had the run of the air force base where he was detained, eating at the officers' mess and sharing a room with a Jordanian air force officer in genial camaraderie. He seemed cheerfully prepared to cooperate, and the Jordanians happily scheduled a big conference where Madani was to be put on show as a Nasser spy in the sky. But early that afternoon he excused himself from the group of officers chatting at the club, explaining that...
Kennedy: Vice-President Nixon and I are agreed on this issue. Just let me add that this country has never been in a worse position as regards the Soviet Union. What we need is strong, new youthful leadership to get us out of this mess. To quote Franklin D. Roosevelt, to whom I bear a striking resemblance: "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny...
...Home dropped in on opening night to catch her daughter, Gail Jones, 22, in a musical titled Valmouth and having to do with the antics of a mixed bag of aristocrats, plebeians and Far Eastern visitors at an English seaside resort. The critics thought the show "tired" and "a mess," but one allowed that Gail might ride more handsomely in another vehicle. Tersely observed the New York Times: "Gail may turn out to be a singer...