Word: slipshodness
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...statement referred to the Selective Service System as "slipshod in its administration and violative of accepted standards of constitutional due process." It warned that such a system "encourages the initiation and prolongation of senseless adventures such as the present war in Viet...
...concluding that the agency has so many problems that a "60-day reprieve" would be necessary for it to "gather itself together." The House Small Business Committee went ahead with its own hearings and heard blacks and whites criticize inaction, lack of imagination and the kind of slipshod procedures that resulted in the use of funds to guarantee a $135,000 bank loan to Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals star whose salary is $85,000. "Black capitalism has not failed, because it was never given a chance," said former CORE director Floyd McKissick...
...counsel welfare-rights organizations, to prepare research for neighborhood legal-aid centers and to initiate court action on behalf of the poor. As it happens, much of the litigation subsidized by the Federal Government has been used to bring successful suits against local, state and federal authorities for slipshod and unconstitutional handling of poverty and welfare programs...
...student riots, the worst of which occurred at Columbia soon after Barzun completed his manuscripts. He is noticeably cool to student rioters, although he sympathizes with some of their protests. So many professors are busy with activities outside the classroom, he says, that they have become guilty of slipshod teaching, poor preparation, dull lectures, careless assignments, late markings and a cavalier attitude that eventually justifies the anger of revolutionary undergraduates at a depersonalized system...
...effrontery of Maggie Flynn is to commercially exploit, for purposes of amusement, the oppression of Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went...