Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moore's day has been a full and satisfying one, well-paced, productive, and shaped for efficiency. It requires a real planner to conceive and carry out such a day; modern farming is no job for the amateur, the incompetent, the haphazard or the lazy. Today's farmer must invest in tractors and other expensive labor-saving equipment. A poor manager has too much to lose and too many ways to lose...
Died. Herbert Putnam, 93, longtime (1899-1939) Librarian of Congress; in Woods Hole, Mass. Appointed by President McKinley, Dr. Putnam transformed the library's haphazard collection of less than a million volumes into one of the world's largest (over 10 million books and pamphlets), developed a new system of classification, supervised the purchase of a valuable European collection of incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible...
This seemingly haphazard procedure outraged purists among infectious-disease experts, who insisted that every batch of vaccine should be rigorously retested, even if this meant delaying the entire inoculation program a month, with the consequence that in many states it could not be completed before the polio season's peak. But Dr. Scheele was more anxious to reassure than to alarm. Although there is no apparent difference between the vaccine ordered held up and the 5,000,000 or more shots already used. Surgeon General Scheele insisted that "the parents of children who have received [the] vaccine this spring...
...much of Album was haphazard. Comic Henry Morgan, acting as co-master of ceremonies, behaved as if he had hardly bothered to learn his cues, let alone his gags; his partner, British Actor Cyril (Peter Pan) Ritchard, ran his oh-so-English witticisms into the ground. The choreography was raggedly routine, the chorus breathless in its singing. The TV camera seemed to add unbecoming extra poundage to plumpish Martha Wright, singing I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. Televised in black and white, no matter how magnified the screen, Album became a blurry, uneven adaptation...
...haphazard form of hockey that was played on the English fens after late fall rains had frozen into thin sheets...