Word: haphazard
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These were serious strategic measures against the threat that German rockets might become something more than haphazard morale and propaganda weapons of the future. Patently the Allies could see serious consequences if V-2 were not beaten down...
...King or repeat an oath of allegiance. Justice John Andrew Hope dismissed the suit. Said he: "I can conceive of no more certain way of creating . . . friction amongst the pupils of a class as to their love of country, and their duty to their country, than by permitting haphazard compliance with the singing of the national anthem...
...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...