All the figures, with thick lips and wide,happy-go-luckygrins (wholly inappropriate to the perilous mission), are mordant caricatures of the old stereotype.
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The media world, in which we are at home, is fleeting andhappy-go-lucky; today, already, other images are making the news.
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We cannot have this haphazard,happy-go-luckycash allowance that we have now, running up at this rate.
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I say quite confidently that thathappy-go-luckyway of dealing with storage is doomed to failure.
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We have been going on ratherhappy-go-luckymethods.
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The herring fishing industry has suffered acutely from the loss of its export trade, from depreciated currencies and thehappy-go-luckyorganisation of the industry.
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At present there exists ahappy-go-luckystate of affairs, and the matter is one which, in my opinion, requires immediate attention.
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At the present time the method is far toohappy-go-lucky.
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We came to the conclusion that it was to be a friendly,happy-go-luckysort of place where people exchanged views.
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We are, of course, a very careless,happy-go-luckypeople, but in wartime some pains are taken.
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But,happy-go-luckyfellows, some of them probably do not take the trouble to read it.
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They are, on the whole, a complacent,happy-go-luckylot.
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The pendulum must sooner or later swing from permissive attitudes, thehappy-go-luckyidea and wage chasing to high standards, and, with that, productivity and employment will rise.
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It simply goes on to stereotype the prevailing system of agriculture and thehappy-go-luckyorganisation which has produced the chaos into which they have now fallen.
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I know that many of my old comrades are in indigent circumstances, in some cases largely because of thehappy-go-luckyand improvident way of the ex-service man.
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