Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with Boxing Gloves. Oliva's haphazard style would have horrified Perfectionist Cobb. It terrifies opposing pitchers. "Where are you going to pitch the guy?" asks California's Dean Chance. "Earlier this year I jammed him and he hit the ball into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams...
...Your article on the Venice Biennale [June 24] stated: "When all Americans lost, Geldzahler petulantly handed out a statement denouncing prizes as meaningless." TIME got the sequence and tone of the events wrong. I announced that "prizes reflect quality only in the most haphazard way" on June 14, the day the judges began their work. I had previously taken this stand in a talk at the Italian Embassy in Washington...
...enough to say that a number of such tentative gestures a Seltzer's independent studies will eventually add up to a valuable program. Such an education can never be, for years to come, more than a combination of the haphazard steps that created it. If Harvard is going to have a valuable program in the arts, whether one of negligible, modest, or gigantic size, some body of the Faculty, is going to have to start planning...
...result of this obsession with local prerogative has been a series of haphazard, uncoordinated attempts to solve the river's problems, having little relation to the needs of either the Charles or of the other communities downstream. Because local rule is an old Massachusetts tradition (many of these towns have been incorporated and operating for over 300 years) the General Court is reluctant to remove any local authority even when a troubled natural resource is involved...
...month, he has not lost many home-front wars either. He has become the strongest Defense Secretary the U.S. has ever had, achieving something his predecessors despaired of or only dreamed of: making the sprawling military establishment responsive to overall direction. He has brought scientific deliberation into the previously haphazard selection and development of major weapons, imposed stern economy measures while increasing fighting strength. He is reshaping the Army reserves and National Guard from an antiquated, flabby militia into a modern, lean strike force. He has exported his brand of innovation to NATO, helped give the alliance a more effective...