Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...robombs made no military sense. One residential suburb, apparently on the beam of one distant launching site, suffered repeated blasts. Military damage: nil. The bombs fell, haphazard, all about London's vast sweep. Seven hospitals were hit in one day, three more the next day. In one, ten patients were killed. In one hut (next to a morgue that housed more dead) ten bomb-damage repairmen, just recruited in Scotland and Ireland, were killed...
...salient, and smashed at least 100 tanks. The attacks indicated that Rommel might be somewhat out of balance, with more tank forces than he could economically use, and not enough first-rate infantry to use with them. Some of the assaults seemed poorly coordinated, and launched in hasty, haphazard fashion...
There was much less derision of the haphazard robots, much more serious talk of their destructive potentiality if their flight could be closely controlled (see-SCIENCE). And those who continued to insist that the robots were exclusively aimed at civilian morale missed an important point...
Many of the very things your report finds questionable are not so appalling from the inside. An antique, seemingly haphazard, or unintegrated building dating back into the last century is, if anything, much more therapeutic than brand-new, cold-cut steel and brick. It is the minds, the imaginations, the fancies of those treated that is important, not their carcasses...
...This training . . . can be best done in a sort of school or college where others . . . are learning to be blind. . . . Haphazard and casual training in the home often does more harm than good...