Word: slipshod
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...doing our work, we have constantly striven to . . . render the Greek, as we understood it, into the . . . natural vocabulary, constructions, and rhythms of contemporary speech. We have sought to avoid archalsms, jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod...
...Under present conditions," Henning went on to say, "many good actors have the idea that the Loeb is too big and professional for them." He indicated that people have stayed away, causing the season to be "rough and slipshod...
Studies also show that noise adversely affects human efficiency. The Air Force's Dr. von Gierke says: "It impairs both manual dexterity and accuracy." A normally accurate, responsible aircraft mechanic may unconsciously rush, through his work, do a slipshod job, if he happens to be working in the neighborhood of a whining jet exhaust. When officials of Aetna Life Insurance Co. cut office noise levels 14.5% by installing acoustic wallboard, they found that typists' errors dropped 29%, machine operators' errors fell 52%, employee turnover decreased 47%, and absenteeism declined...
...trip (who has turned into a first-rate political campaigner). In 1952 Bobby joined the legal staff of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee. A diligent worker, he uncovered a headline-getting scandal involving British merchant ships carrying supplies to Red China during the Korean war. The "slipshod" investigations of the committee's chief counsel, Roy Cohn, seemed just as scandalous to Bobby, and he resigned from the committee staff. But he was soon back on the subcommittee as the Democrats' minority counsel. After the Democrats won the Senate in 1954, Bob Kennedy took over...
...Deadly Game. Three retired European men-of-law nightly meet for dinner and a sort of moot-court parlor game. An American salesman happens in, is tried for his morally slipshod life. Adapted by James Yaffe from a Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel...