Word: sloppyness
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By the time he was 30, White had earned a reputation as a master of luminous prose, and over a career that spanned more than 50 years, he never let his standards or his audience down. He insisted that words, his own and others', should communicate rather than confuse: "When...
Kidder also provides bonuses: vest-pocket essays on architecture and the lumber business; insights into bidding, building techniques and the pleasures of physical labor. His builders are a proud bunch not given to "cob jobs," carpenters' jargon for sloppy work. Their praise is dispensed with the left hand, as in...
The experience and cohesion of the starting unit was highlighted by the Crimson's second half effort against MIT--when sloppy play by a line-up combining starters and second-stringers gave the Engineers the impression they belonged on the same field with their uptown neighbors.
Defense contractors and high-tech firms have been notorious for lax security. At TRW, according to Boyce, "security was a joke." He and his co-workers used the code-destruction blender in TRW's ultrasecret "black vault" for mixing banana daiquiris. The Boyce scandal forced TRW to tighten up, and...
Spurred by anger at literary injustice--sloppy thinking and extra-literary intrusions into creative and critical writing--he enters town "ready to apprehend delinquent writers' but just a little "too late to ambush the novelist John Irving, who has already ridden into town, cleaned out the banks, and ridden out...