Word: haphazard
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...documents seem too humble and haphazard for Hitler: the bindings vary, only one of the covers is embossed with the gold letters AH, and most are bound in black imitation leather. Scoffs Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant: "Imitation leather? For Hitler there was real leather or nothing...
...Some of the scenes, like "Tortoise and Hare," are rousing song and dance routines: all feature sharp, wise-cracking humor. Yet, although most of the scenes are winning in themselves, the show overall lacks direction and flow; it's missing a theme and a pattern. The numbers come in haphazard arrangement, seemingly without design, each revealing a neat moral cliche that could be more efficiently placed in a greeting card...
...best way to understand the interrelated problems that the reformers hope to tackle is by examining the haphazard method by which weapons are chosen, tested and funded. The lack of coherence in the process can be seen through a simple example: the way money is spent for close air support. American and NATO defense doctrine hinges on effective close air support: the Soviets invade Central Europe, the U.S. Army's M-60 and new M-1 tanks confront them, and the U.S. Air Force is called upon to coordinate bombing and strafing attacks on enemy artillery and tanks. "Close...
...ensuing discussion, which Rosovsky termed "as good a discussion" of the Core as he has had, student criticism and praise for the program was moderate, haphazard, and mostly directed at specific problems or suc- sive contact with the repertory company, Wyse said...
...Vergilian tag, "Procul este, profani, "which freely translates as "Closed to non-experts." Turnstile tallies were not a concern of Renaissance Popes. In the past 1,500 years or so, the Vatican has amassed vast amounts of art in a way that has oscillated between the ravenous and the haphazard. There is a vague popular belief-which this show is careful not to disturb-that the Popes were always keen patrons of the best art of their time. It is quite untrue...