Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sloppy in his work. He worked very hard and conscientiously on this genealogy. He cross-referenced, and was very thorough." But, she says, "I have no idea where the item about a Durie-Kennedy marriage came from. My father must have made a mistake." He was indeed slipshod in the paragraph in question. He spelled Durie's maiden name Malcom instead of Malcolm, reversed her first two marriages., and neglected to mention that for a decade before the publication of his genealogy she had been Mrs. Thomas Shevlin...
...astonishment of many aviation experts, the CAB chose to pass over past safety and maintenance violations to concentrate on economic questions. The theory, as outlined by one CABman, sounded like a textbook social worker's solution to juvenile delinquency: the nonskeds' financial hardships have spawned slipshod maintenance practices. So the CAB was looking for signs of financial health and was content to take FAA's word that the applicants satisfied safety requirements. But such assurances from the FAA are hardly reassuring; it had said before their disastrous crashes that Imperial and President were safe...
...return, Flanagan got 5,000,000 cards packed with one billion bits of information, which is now being organized and analyzed by Pitt's computers. Among preliminary discoveries: >English teaching is slipshod: only one out of 100 kids produced a five-minute theme without mistakes in grammar, spelling or usage...
...until I am an old grad--ready to overlook such points--I will resent the very slipshod way in which this year's volume has been put together. Much of the copy reads like a bad first draft, and the dummying is totally unimaginative. I am told that part of the trouble is that some of the copy really is first draft, and that many of the pages were in fact dummied in one night. The yearbook staff has had its troubles this term, God knows, but they really must pull themselves together...
...bulldozers and carpenters' hammers, a citizens' committee sounded a note of alarm and warning. In the heedless rush to keep up with the demand for more and more, warned the committee, the builders are transforming California into a mass of "slurbs-sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi-cities...