Word: haphazards
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...Connor explains that he does not want to "peak too fast," but his campaign plainly suffers from haphazard organization. Moreover, he has to contend with the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who became the Liberal Party's gubernatorial choice after losing the Democratic nomination, and is sure to siphon off votes that would otherwise have gone to O'Connor. To compound O'Connor's woes, Rockefeller's progressive record, notably an increase in the state minimum wage to $1.50, has cost the Democrats some of their customary labor support. The 250,000-member Building...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
...Dacron tether while the earth swings dizzyingly below. Gradually, as Command Pilot Pete Conrad fires short blasts of his thrusters, the two ships settle down into stable rotation. The tether stretches taut between them. Frames taken after the tether is cut loose show the long Dacron strap winding in haphazard fashion around Agena...
...theory that 18 well-done productions are better than 26 haphazard jobs, he cut the company's repertory to make more rehearsal time for each opera. He took one look at the opera's anemic ballet troupe and got Antony Tudor in as ballet master. The Met's ballet is still nothing to dance in the streets about, but at least it is on its toes. (Years ago a secretary explained to Bing that ballerinas who got too old to dance became secretaries at the Met. "Curious," murmured Bing. "I thought it was the other way around...
Scorpion might be a hand-to-mouth operation, but there will be nothing haphazard about it; Kuttner has carefully fashioned his own taste into a consistent philosophy for the magazine. "The styles of tomorrow will supposedly come from today," he explains, with rare lack of hyperbole, searching for words which on paper look like a prepared speech. "I don't want to go into the 'To's with our generation having created no type of synthetic heritage for ourselves...