Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contracts run for two and a half years, include all Lend-Lease needs and all the trucks the Army expects to use in a "reasonable war period." Now manufacturers can lay out longterm, sense-making production schedules, standardize operations and parts, avoid the waste and confusion of numerous small, haphazard orders...
...most chaotic and haphazard phase of the entire war manpower problem has been the training and procurement of specialists at the college level. While the plans of the armed-forces for training line officers are still uncoordinated, they at least follow the definite outlines of the reserve programs. But not even such simple directives have been worked out for procuring the much needed engineers, physicists, chemists, and men who can speak Russian and Japanese...
...foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...
...year-old Justice really expected to keep his date, he was going about it in somewhat haphazard fashion. When he went off this week to Fort Banning, Ga., he was still a member of the Supreme Court, from which he had not yet resigned, or been given a leave of absence...
...opposite page, alas, we see a dreary, lamentable series of failures, nearly all avoidable and almost entirely due to bad strategy and haphazard planning at the top. Churchill, the brilliant rhetorician, Churchill, the astute politician, is akin in spirit to the fabled comedian who eats his heart out longing to star in tragic roles. He has always fancied himself in a martial capacity, for which his particular brilliant attainments are unsuited...