Word: hit-or-miss
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...language, history and sociology of the nations to which they are assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political service on the home front in selecting its diplomats. The result is a hit-or-miss system that occasionally succeeds, but more often ends up in quiet failure or conspicuous disaster...
...scientists-they have swarmed over Cambridge and Oxford since World War II-but much more on the wisdom of enlarging the university and of concentrating scientists in one residential college. Churchill College would add 600 scholars-70% of them scientists-to the 8,500-student university. A hit-or-miss poll of 500 Cantabrigians showed 52% against the addition. Literary Scholar Eustace Tillyard, master of Jesus College, called the plan "pernicious," added with scorn and resignation that ''mere flesh and blood do not reject the bait of a million pounds odd, nor does common human decency care...
...near so well. The Girls in 509 has truly funny moments, when a gag cuts sharp as a razor, or a prop turns into a vise. But a situation that never develops the slightest bit of story has to be relentlessly kept going with comic-strip characters and hit-or-miss gags. Worse, loud and obvious staging that only Peggy Wood knows how to rise above underlines everything that is tiresome, or tinny, or both. Actually, The Girls in 509 has just enough winning gags and gadgets for a topnotch revue skit. In its present form, Playwright Teichmann, having come...
...editorial board to grill candidates in off-the-record sessions. As Florida's Democratic primary campaign drew to a close this week, the result of Baggs's inquisition was an editorial policy far more savvy, far less likely to be fatuous than the old hit-or-miss ways...
...Cutter Laboratories, came down with polio.* Live virus was found in six (of 17) Cutter vaccine batches. The U.S. Public Health Service reached the "presumption" that the cause of the disease in people getting shots from the six batches was the vaccine itself, promptly tightened up its previously hit-or-miss testing methods to make sure that no more live virus got through...