Word: haphazardly
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...This evil thing," said a harassed Argentine official, "is like a huge centipede, a giant having 100 heads and thousands of feet, favored by the vast extent of our frontiers, by haphazard legislation piled up over the years, by a lack of definite means of combatting it." Communism? Not this time. The official was bemoaning a corrupting force that antedates even Marx-the legion of Latin American smugglers who, to the policeman's dismay and consumer's delight, control some 20% of Latin America's import trade...
...Brien's world mark in 1959 when he was only a freshman in college. Married and a father now, he has put on 10 lbs., and his graduate studies in dentistry keep him busy 60 hours a week. He competed only twice all last season, and his haphazard practice sessions this year are limited to two nights a week. "It's always in the dark," says Long. "I used to climb the playground fence at the grammar school down the block, but the night watchman didn't like that much. So now I use a piece...
...haphazard crackling of aging oils is time's contemptuous comment on Mondrian's ice-pure ideals. He himself wrote in the mid-'20s that he preferred "a more or less mechanical execution" using "materials produced by industry," because de Stijl sought a rapport with the new technology that Van Gogh and other 19th century artists generally detested. In essence, the Stijlists felt that since the machine cannot make nature, it must if properly used make...
...single Sanchez child, more intricately related to his country's disheveled past and closer to its soil. Pedro's setting is "Azteca" (another pseudonym), an ancient farming village in the stony highlands about 60 miles south of Mexico City. Like most Mexican peasant children, he had a haphazard upbringing. His father died when he was three months old, after which his mother, "being just a girl, she got herself a boy" and went off with him. Pedro was raised off and on by an aunt, a grandmother, a godmother, an uncle and, finally, by his mother...
...hundred years since it was drafted, New York State's penal code has been subjected to haphazard amendment, but not until a state commission started the job 2½ years ago did anyone try to renovate the entire collection of statutes. Reorganized and rewritten in clear English, the commission's proposed code was delivered to the legislature last week. In whatever form it is finally passed, its most important contribution is likely to be its redefinition of crimes. Examples...