Word: slipshodness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ungratifying pay of $.55 per hour. Both here and at Widener, this work requires full attention of the attendant. Both in the Houses and at Widener the authorities, as well as the House Masters, agree that a raise in pay will mean the difference between efficient service and slipshod stop-gaps...
...press as well as the Bomb had been on trial at Bikini. The Bomb did its part. How had the press acquitted itself? Last week precise, Annapolis-trained Hanson W. Baldwin, military analyst of the New York Times, put into the record a stern account of slipshod work, "irresponsible sensationalism" and some more than raffish behavior...
Charges that medical and health arrangements on the Vance had been inadequate and slipshod indicated that conditions might have been ripe for an outbreak in the ship's nursery. But Army investigators reported that, despite the clearance at Le Havre, some of the babies were suffering from malnutrition when they were brought aboard ship. Said the investigators: "The outbreak . . . was due to a filterable virus and spread through contact infection...
...third and largest network, for general listening, was overhauled from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian...
...offices of the newspaper L'Aurore. They stated they were not collaborators or Nazis, as the Picassophile press was quick to suggest, but resisters-resisting mystification. In sum, the motive seemed to be resentment at the enormous puffing up of Picasso recently, and against his new slipshod, almost contemptuous style...