Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...trip (who has turned into a first-rate political campaigner). In 1952 Bobby joined the legal staff of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee. A diligent worker, he uncovered a headline-getting scandal involving British merchant ships carrying supplies to Red China during the Korean war. The "slipshod" investigations of the committee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, seemed just as scandalous to Bobby, and he resigned from the committee staff. But he was soon back on the subcommittee as the Democrats' minority counsel. After the Democrats won the Senate in 1954, Bob Kennedy took over...
...Deadly Game. Three retired European men-of-law nightly meet for dinner and a sort of moot-court parlor game. An American salesman happens in, is tried for his morally slipshod life. Adapted by James Yaffe from a Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel...
...Still, the telegram served to dramatize the pilots' union feud with General Quesada's administration: a feud based principally on the fact that in his 13 months as boss of civilian and military air operation, tough, dedicated Pete Quesada (TIME, July 6) has cracked down mercilessly on slipshod maintenance and flying procedures that have bedeviled the airlines for years...