Word: haphazardous
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...fact, of course, George McGovern and the Democrats had not taken more time; they had probably taken less time than any major party in history to choose their vice-presidential candidate. The great Democratic reforms had somehow not got round to improving the haphazard system of choosing a Vice President (see TIME ESSAY...
...homes for a weekend of canoeing down a wild Georgia river, Lewis says: "They're raping the whole goddamned landscape." It seems that the unspoiled countryside gliding past their car windows will soon be gone, after engineers dam the river and change it into a broad, still lake. Haphazard at first, the expedition soon becomes a horror. It is nature in all its untamable force that finally rapes...
...suggested that all concerned-from generals down to sergeants-be tried en masse, on the Nuremberg model. Such a proceeding, she says, could have "apportioned blame in large, small and medium slices according to a single measure." Instead, the combination of separate trials and administrative decisions inevitably produced "a haphazard result" and left "a sense of un fairness." Even after Medina's trial, "the feeling remained that the full story of My Lai 4 was still to be told, not the details of the massacre but what lay behind...
Owls and Mice. But survival for Bogus is a haphazard undertaking at best. An unsuccessful attempt at infidelity becomes a mad, nude chase across the Iowa countryside that leaves Bogus with bleeding feet, if not a bleeding heart. Homeward bound, he falls off a bicycle in front of a barber shop and sardonically observes: "Several sheeted men raised their shaved skulls above the backs of their barber chairs, watching me writhe on the sidewalk as if they were owls-and me, a club-footed mouse...
...sketches. In a piece called Mr. Big, Allen, a hard-cooked private I, is on the lookout for the Supreme Being. "Somebody with that description just showed up at the morgue," the cops tell him. "It's the work of an existentialist." How can you tell? he argues. "Haphazard way how it was done. Doesn't seem to be any system followed. Impulse...