Word: haphazards
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...from the Radcliffe library has a casual, trustful air--students sign the book's card and leave it on the circulation desk, pick up a date-due slip, and depart, all without any supervision by librarians. For those used to Harvard's stricter methods, the whole procedure seems slightly haphazard. One leaves the library with the feeling that he has gotten away with something, if only a two-week book...
Besides having one of the richest diets and the most varied menus on earth, Americans daily consume a haphazard assortment of an estimated 400 chemicals added to foods as preservatives, coloring agents, antioxidants, mold inhibitors, bleaches, thickeners, thinners, emulsifiers and moisteners. This week, to take both the hap and the hazard out of the addilives, a new law (signed by President Eisenhower six months ago; becomes effective. Its burden: before processors may add any chemical to food, its safety must be proved to the satisfaction of the Food & Drug Administration...
After what a Committee member called a "haphazard" trial in the Fall Term, a poll indicated 3-1 approval of the innovation. Thus encouraged, the Committee borrowed better equipment for last Friday and played "everything from Mozart to Mantovani." Since the response was violently inconclusive, Peter A. Lindenbaum '60, chairman of the House Committee, admitted that another canvass would probably be in order...
Another charge leveled against Roosevelt is that his administrative machinery was confusing and haphazard, but this was merely Roosevelt's way of doing things, Schlesinger stated. "Bureaucracy stifles inventiveness and takes life out of government," he asserted...
...Catholic Pat Brown has his debits too: 1) a haphazard administrator during his eight years as state attorney general, he must prove himself in the infinitely tougher job of Governor; 2) a political loner, Brown has stood aloof from the Democratic professionals and made enemies in the process ("There are something like 30,000 Democratic Club workers," says a top California party leader, "and at least half of them are just waiting for Brown to make his first mistake. Then they're going to run wild"); 3) even to control the California delegation as a favorite-son candidate, Brown...