Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roddy McDowall, some very appealing horses, and skillful, if sometimes over-intense, technicolor have been thrown together in a game attempt to make "Thunderhead" palatable entertainment, but even Hollywood has no antidote for poor writing, miscasting, and haphazard direction. While horse fanciers and McDowall enthusiasts may thrill to "Thunderhead," the more critical will probably--and properly--consider it a mass of mistakes...
...first step, he wangled two surplus DC-35 from the Civil Aeronautics Board, hopes to have them operating in two months. With them as a starter, he hopes to bring an end to the present haphazard schedules, and to knock down fares...
...concede that the V-bombs had true military value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels and Liège without mercy...
These were serious strategic measures against the threat that German rockets might become something more than haphazard morale and propaganda weapons of the future. Patently the Allies could see serious consequences if V-2 were not beaten down...
...King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing of the national anthem...