Word: hit-or-miss
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Europe's Estimate. In the meantime, clear language from Washington was needed to convince the world that a full-grown Truman Doctrine would be the U.S.'s constructive answer to the Communist Party, and not merely a hit-or-miss substitute for UNRRA. The Communists were already busy telling the world that the Truman Doctrine meant imperialism and slavery. Even some French non-Communists thought that the Socialist dirigisme-the "directed economy"-would be lost by listening to advice from the U.S. (see cut). In Britain a large and vocal bloc in the British Labor Party urged Ernest...
...team that has had to start from scratch, after three years of hit-or-miss or even no competition, under a coach who is fathering a Harvard links squad for the first time, and challenged by weather that Coach Bill Barclay unqualifiedly calls "plain miserable,"--for such a team, a perfect scorecard is nothing short of miraculous...
...tireless man, his father often wore out three horses in the course of a day's riding about the fields. He died when Billy, as he was then called, was 8. Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When he was 14, his mother decided that it was time Billy got a formal education, and enrolled him in the Honolulu military academy. He had been there only six weeks when he learned that his mother was going...
Three years of hit-or-miss golf competition will draw to a close this afternoon when candidates for the first formal postwar teams will show up at the Indoor Athletic Building for an organizational meeting...
...tremendous prods and an index of student opinion appear for the Council Constitutional Committee in the results of the poll. Almost unanimously, the present hit-or-miss method of Council contact with the student body at large was condemned as being inadequate, while the "grievance committee" idea received nearly as large an affirmative vote. If the Council has not previously considered this tenuousness of contact as a major problem, it would probably do well to reflect on the absolute weight of the majority...