Word: makeshift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Irrepressible merchants set up makeshift stands to hawk books, camping lanterns and underwear in front of shuttered stores. Shoppers discovered to their delight that abundant supplies of fresh fruit and vegetables had filtered through a leaky Israeli blockade posted along the Green Line that divides the capital. In the surrounding hills, Israeli soldiers played Ping Pong or strummed guitars to pass the idle hours. As a silver kite bobbed brightly in a stiff breeze, an Israeli officer sighed in amazement: "This is a surrealistic...
...plan Skid Row Park, POD held two workshops. In the first, some 45 community residents, social workers, bums and police officers roughed out designs with such makeshift materials as paper cups, ice cream sticks and colored paper. In the second, a similar group scrutinized POD's preliminary proposal and suggested refinements...
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees sat disconsolately under makeshift tents in the dusty, grubby Beirut park that goes by the absurdly fancy name of Garden of the Arts. Among them was Nefalah Farour, 38, who had fled the P.L.O.-dominated port of Tyre on the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Accompanied by five of her seven children, she had walked through the mountains to the dubious safety of Beirut. Exhausted, she squatted on a flattened cardboard box and fretted over the fate of the two youngsters she had been obliged to leave behind in her flight from...
...days without food or water. Others fled to the countryside or the capital. Trekking back after the ceasefire, many found their homes severely damaged or destroyed. Still uncounted dead were hidden under the shattered masonry of their buildings and shops. An incalculable number of wounded lay in makeshift hospitals...
...Beirut, the makeshift press headquarters is the 150-room Commodore Hotel, which has its own telex lines and electric generators. All three U.S. television networks-each with as many as five crews in the field-managed to send film out daily by satellite from an east Beirut ground transmission station. The unofficial rules for Beirut-based correspondents were grim, however: stick together, do not go out at night, and never photograph Syrian troops, who detained several photographers and reportedly pistol-whipped two. By contrast, the propaganda-wise Palestinians were eager to please, providing military guides to protect reporters. Los Angeles...