Word: haphazards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project in years, and also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos and vermilions. There were flashes of the Duke's fine musicianship. Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity...
Gropius called attention to the discrepancy between "the high intellectual standards of this University and the haphazard mess that makes up its environment...
Enemy mines haphazard the roads, enemy mortars control the passes, enemy snipers infest the fields. In 15 miles the lieutenant loses two men, and when he gets to Hill 465. he finds-enemy machine-gun nests. The picture ends with a battle for a hill that probably means nothing to either side...
...sure, the University offers courses in classical history, but they are given at intervals and not generally integrated with the Classics Department. The tutorial program is excellent, but the material covered is necessarily haphazard. Thus many a student approaches his senior year with little concept of what actually went on in classical antiquity except for what he has gleaned...
...saviour of Panama"; Remon used it as a campaign jingle, and after he won the election sent Kontiki a check for $250. For any rising young calypso singer, the next step was clear. Then only 16, Kontiki strolled into a local ginmill one night and, in one of the haphazard contests that decide calypso rank, sang down the reigning monarch, one King Cobra. As King Cobra faded into oblivion, Kontiki rose, working his way up to better and costlier bars...