Word: haphazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell-for-leather abstractionists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning have kept Manhattan art circles spinning all season. Their swirls, blobs and blizzards of paint, most of them too haphazard for analytical discussion, drew cheers and jeers, started scores of cocktail-party tiffs...
...Haphazard planning has left its mark on University property. Ancient buildings, incongruous architectural styles, and random positioning make clear the need for a University planning group to develop an effective long range building program...
...Irreparable" and "haphazard" are excellent words with which to describe the plight of U.S. Army reservists...
...incident was only one result of the armed forces' haphazard and unfair reserve program. Reaching in all directions for men the armed forces had grabbed blindly in the direction of some 2,500,000 reservists. Thousands were called up, given no idea when they would get out. While Selective Service was deferring non-reservists with dependents, reservists with dependents were hustled into uniform...
House spiders, whose implacable enemy is the housewife, make thick, haphazard webs which Author Crompton regards as a mess. This spider spins only at night, but works indefatigably, and is willing to mend and patch. The only mouse ever recorded as caught and killed by a spider was the victim of a house spider. In Britain, the biggest house spider has a body nearly an inch long, and, counting the legs, is four inches across. This monster is called "the cardinal," because once, at Hampton Court, one scared the 16th Century's Cardinal Wolsey almost to death...