Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lindsay Almond, sitting alone and writing in his lawbook-lined study for almost two days, had made his decision, and he stood by it. Almond quietly lined up Byrd-organization moderates and others, quietly defied the Byrd leadership, warned the extremists that he would have to veto any slapdash measures designed to thwart the courts...
...past few years. He also claimed that the Council has "misrepresented" several functions and services of the NSA, as well as the costs of membership. He thus criticized the stand taken by Andrew Warshaw '59, who felt that the resolutions of the congress were handled with a "slapdash method...
...grievances with NSA are not on policy, but on method. Does not this slapdash method detract from, if not nullify, the meaning of what NSA does? Can it really be said that American students favor the release of some obscure Algerian student leader-rioter now in jail? Sure we are for freedom, but who is the guy? Maybe he threw a bomb. But you have said you wanted him released...
...Armchair. Despite these body checks, Heyerdahl is convinced that he has found additional evidence that the Easter Island image makers were originally seafarers from Peru. One reason: ancient Peru was known for megalithic structures not unlike those on Easter Island. The book-translated from Norwegian into chatty, slapdash English-has travelogue overtones of mystery and menace that seldom seem justified by the events described. Perhaps the Easter islanders were a shade too hip for the Western visitors, but they still provide a good story for armchair archaeologists...
...world!" In one sense, Author Kerouac's dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence. But if the concept of the beat generation can be reduced to its philosophical origins, it is simply U.S.-style existentialism. The Subterraneans, in its tawdry, slapdash way, testifies to one of Kierkegaard's precepts: "Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced...