Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record will be kept of each man willing to serve, whether in the Army or at a civil post. Each State will have a certain quota of volunteers to fill. If war occurs, men will be called by the county societies as they are needed. There will be no haphazard enlistment of individual doctors, as in World War I. Nor will doctors have to learn how to march and drill, as they...
That spectacular piece of reporting, American White Paper by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner, declared last month that U. S. foreign policy-in conception at least-is neither hare-brained nor haphazard but determined and clean-cut (TIME, April 29). But difficulties in its application and debate on its course still remain. Last week and this, two books by distinguished students of the problem were rushed into print. Each was primarily concerned with the protection...
...three-man band, the broadcast rapidly built up to 25 or 30 men a week; now boasts numerous guest stars, a white string ensemble, a colored quartet. Star of the Negro harmonizers, Lifer Joe Johnston introduces their numbers with homespun sermons; repents his past, bewails the future in haphazard doggerel. Sample...
...There was [for example] a generation or two that suffered from Watt's steam engine more frightfully than any people suffered from the first World War." In the field of design the revolution has been as wasteful, haphazard and painful as it has in economics or politics, principally because man is still merely fumbling with the brand-new set of complicated tools modern technology has given him. Today's designers, working laboriously by trial & error, are creating the semisavage "primitives" of the machine...
...place of the present haphazard distribution, the Committee would substitute five required introductory courses--two in the humanities, two in the natural sciences, and one in the social sciences. Taken in Freshman and Sophomore year, they would prepare the way for natural progress to a field of concentration...