Word: haphazard
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Multi-Managed Future. Even in outline, MacArthur's blueprints for Japan shone in comparison with the haphazard and piecemeal planning which Russia, Britain, France and the U.S. have done independently in Germany. His sweeping experiment has had the great virtue of unity. How will it fare under the newborn multi-national Commission and Council...
...SHAEF, however, the Supreme Commander's hard-working chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, made it clear that the official U S. -Russian junction would not be a haphazard patrol contact, and that it would not be casually reported. The time and place had been agreed on: the announcement would be a joint fanfare from Washington, London and Moscow...
Roddy McDowall, some very appealing horses, and skillful, if sometimes over-intense, technicolor have been thrown together in a game attempt to make "Thunderhead" palatable entertainment, but even Hollywood has no antidote for poor writing, miscasting, and haphazard direction. While horse fanciers and McDowall enthusiasts may thrill to "Thunderhead," the more critical will probably--and properly--consider it a mass of mistakes...
...first step, he wangled two surplus DC-35 from the Civil Aeronautics Board, hopes to have them operating in two months. With them as a starter, he hopes to bring an end to the present haphazard schedules, and to knock down fares...
...concede that the V-bombs had true military value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels and Liège without mercy...