Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pathet Lao has consistently refused to honor the 1954 Geneva agreement placing the administration of its two provinces under the royal government; Pathet Lao forces, Communist-supplied and equipped, have been waging haphazard war against royal government troops for more than two years. The Reds' idea of a settlement is to be incorporated into the royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back...
...singing commercials on our air, a demise which will not be deeply mourned. WHRB's programming has always been oriented toward classical music, and in fact, over seventy percent of our airtime is devoted to such music. We try to present it in something other than a haphazard fashion, and it is with this end in mind that we have ten feature programs of good music each week...
...fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid to relatives of the victims...
Calling for an improvement in our "haphazard" granting of aid, Miss Ward emphasized the need for a permanent administrative staff. She merited the old colonial system with "putting trained men, who are able to speak the natives' language, in the field for a lifetime. Although I am not asking for a new colonial service, a definite administrative staff is needed...
With the growing demand for higher education and the resulting need for more teachers, the liberal-arts graduate school should beware of two tempting solutions: the lowering of standards and haphazard expansion. Last week, in his first report as dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Historian Jacques Barzun warned: "As the highest institution of learning, the graduate school suddenly finds that it may soon become the last dike in the flood. Elsewhere, the diluting of quality may do limited or temporary harm. Not at the top. Somewhere the idea of scholarship must be kept unimpaired. Clearly, the graduate...