Word: sloppyness
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"Defensively, we were really sloppy," junior Jamie Crowley said. "We committed three errors in one inning. There is nothing the pitchers can do about that. The pitchers were doing their job, but we just didn't catch the ball."
"Early in the game we got sloppy," Kleinfelder said. "Then we put our heads together and played well."
The post-Ames intelligence inquisition is under way. Congress is determined that this time the CIA will come clean about -- and then clean up -- years of sloppy security practices. Legislators want no more excuses for the mole penetrations, the running of untrustworthy foreign agents or the death or disappearance of...
To start with the latter line of reasoning, a sort of journalistic (and therefore crude) Freudianism, suggest that Ames was never able to fill his father's considerable shoes at the agency, leaving him unfulfilled and disgruntled and in need, therefore, of some dramatic adventure. Carried out to its extreme...
"Which side are you on?" writer Budd Schulberg asked his friend, the writer James Baldwin, 30 years ago. Some black leaders, he noted, specifically Elijah Muhammad, then leader of the Nation of Islam, thought it was "too late for American whites." So where did Baldwin, a "celebrated Negro spokesman," stand...