Word: haphazards
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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...
...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...
...Pathet Lao has consistently refused to honor the 1954 Geneva agreement placing the administration of its two provinces under the royal government; Pathet Lao forces, Communist-supplied and equipped, have been waging haphazard war against royal government troops for more than two years. The Reds' idea of a settlement is to be incorporated into the royal government, and the princely Premier had shown signs of falling for it. The Reds kept pressing. Souphanouvong argued: "To be really neutral, Laos should accept economic aid from China as a counterweight to American aid." Royal Premier Souvanna Phouma, who had come back...
...singing commercials on our air, a demise which will not be deeply mourned. WHRB's programming has always been oriented toward classical music, and in fact, over seventy percent of our airtime is devoted to such music. We try to present it in something other than a haphazard fashion, and it is with this end in mind that we have ten feature programs of good music each week...
...fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid to relatives of the victims...