Word: haphazard
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...months ago the Navy's few chaplains (there were only 96 in 1939) got only haphazard training. A new chaplain simply worked under a veteran, picked up the knack from him. In February 1942, 58-year-old Navy Chief of Chaplains Robert DuBois Workman, who smokes cigars in his ten-inch stem pipe, organized the first training school at Norfolk. Last March the school, jammed with new candidates-Protestants, Catholics and Jews -moved to the Virginia college, where several groups of 25 to 40 constantly train for duty...
...what U.S. airpower has done in the past few months, and for what it will do before war's end, AAFSAT will share the glory that once went haphazard to discoverers in many battle areas. In its career of only two and a half months, flyers have already seen the answer to an old prayer: a school where airmen can learn what battle has taught before they go out to fight and learn more...
...Government, by other phases of its home propaganda, partly defeated its own purposes. For example, the people were told that the reorganized military defenses were so strong that enemy planes could never again penetrate to the centers of Japanese cities. Accepting this, the people themselves have made only haphazard preparations against air attack, and the civilian air-raid precaution system is poorly organized and equipped. Foxholes in back yards are the only shelters; fire-fighting equipment is old and inadequate. The people know all this, but they remain confident that their leaders can keep the war at a distance...
...watch out." For months the enterprise squeaked through by selling two tickets for the price of one-mostly to high-school-age smirkers. In January it was set to close, but was taken over by a saloonkeeper and a hat-check man who abandoned the play's haphazard promotion for a frontal attack featuring sex. Lately, with $3,800 expenses, the play has raked in $10,000 a week, and a road company is being rehearsed. Its destination: war-busy, well-heeled Detroit...
Godfather of the Foreign Affairs Council was Cleveland's famed adopted son, Newton Diehl Baker. In 1923 he helped launch it as the Council for the Prevention of War, watched it lead a haphazard existence until 1934. Then, to an earnest, handsome young man of 34 who was teaching foreign affairs at Yale, he wrote: "The problem we are interested in is . . . that form of adult education about foreign and national affairs which will be so consecutive, continuous and disinterested as to make the whole people . . . conscious at the same time of the same set of facts. . . . Instead...