Word: slipshodness
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West of the tracks, near the sprawling stockyards, is where Clem Lane was born 46 years ago, and much of Oxie's slangy. slipshod idiom springs from Lane's playmates and his long acquaintance with Chicago's Irish cops...
...Slipshod tests had been conducted, the Committee reported, under the auspices of military men drafted from the Big Four rubber companies. But even these tests had proved "cotton cord the equal of rayon in most sizes of synthetic rubber tires in the latest tests. Rayon has displayed no superiority over cotton to warrant the great investment in critical materials now being made to produce facilities for rayon cord...
...will come. No one can know the final details; no one can say when they will come; no one can guarantee the students will not be subjected to weekly barrages like that which rained upon Cambridge yesterday. We can only wait, confident that the final blueprint will be no slipshod affair...
General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, India's Commander in Chief, broadcast from Delhi that danger was closer to India than it has been for 150 years. But what would save India, said General Wavell, was her "fighting men," not "undisciplined schoolboys" and "ignorant hooligans." Indians groaned at the slipshod arrogance of the military mind. They demanded, as before, that the Indian masses be armed and allowed to defend themselves under their own leaders...
...that Germany was catching it in the rear areas, once deemed fairly safe from attack from England, she could start a new line of worry, get busy with air-raid defenses which probably had been rudimentary and slipshod (Russian pilots reported that Berlin was brightly lighted). She also got a new boss of her anti-aircraft defenses: General Friedrich Hirschauer, appointed to replace an unnamed officer who presumably had fallen down...