Word: scattershot
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Bebop is also a way of life (slogan: "be hip, be sharp, be bop!"). Its feverish practitioners like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
Actually, the message contained little that Harry Truman had not recommended in scattershot fashion before. But by failing to assign any order or priority to his sweeping proposals, the President was obviously, and shrewdly, gunning for every vote he could reach...
Ball's Bills. Ball had four bills before the committee. One of them, written in collaboration with Taft and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, was a scattershot charge aimed at various abuses like the secondary boycott (a boycott by union members of a company against which they have no specific grievance). It set up machinery for voluntary mediation and required 60-day cooling-off periods in industrial disputes. To labor leaders, its penalties (possible loss of job) seemed severe. The bill, by & large, was another version of the Case bill, passed by the 79th Congress, vetoed...
...Chrysler Corp. is producing a scattershot shell to fit the regulation .45 pistol. Purpose: so that lost flyers and shipwrecked sailors can hunt small game and even shoot surfaced fish. The shells have a steel case with a red lacquer paper nose holding about 135 lead shot. Effective range...