Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really knows who the Dow demonstrators were. The students who were punished last Fall were little more than a random sampling of the 300 people who were present at the demonstration. Identification of students was haphazard, and evidence was handled quite differently from one House to the next--with the result that one House accounted for more than half of the students punished. To suspend students now on the basis of these chaotic proceedings would be grossly unfair...
...field-goal percentage (62%), which places him ahead of Alcindor in the first two categories. In Detroit's 71-68 victory over then undefeated St. Bonaventure, Haywood bagged 15 points and 16 rebounds. His only apparent weaknesses: he can be forced into an occasional bad pass or haphazard shot...
With the identification process this haphazard, it would be outrageous for the ad board to expel the selected group they say they saw. Even students who have no sympathy with the protest would be disgusted by this kind of divide-and-conquer tactic...
Gale is a former chief of British troops in Palestine after World War II, and later served as a Deputy Supreme Commander of NATO. He contends that the major biblical battles were not haphazard confrontations of wandering primitives but meticulously planned affairs. Abraham's victory over the Elamites-achieved by a surprise attack at night from two directions-"showed an appreciation of military tactics as applicable today as it was 4,000 years...
Fashion this fall seems to be the work of the Madwoman of Chaillot. Plus elements of a rummage sale, a fancy-dress party, and that haphazard art form based on "found objects...