Word: makeshift
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...have a makeshift defensive scheme this weekend," Kohler said...
That's true. Candido and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, decent folk down on their luck, huddle in a makeshift camp in the canyon and climb out every morning to find work at a labor exchange. But the sight of hungry Mexicans spooks Kyra's clients, and she sees to it that the exchange is shut. Delaney's liberal beliefs crumble, and he votes with other residents to build a wall, with a gate, around their development. The author, mistrusting his skill and the reader's acuteness, relentlessly flashes irony alerts. Candido gets work constructing the wall, knowing well...
...days after the Serbs overran the Srebrenica enclave, all but a few of its 42,000 Muslims had been expelled. Thousands of them were in Tuzla or just outside, crowded into a makeshift tent city in appalling conditions at a U.N.-controlled airfield. The daytime sun was scorching, the smell overpowering. Wounded men on homemade wooden crutches hobbled amid hordes of kerchiefed old women in knitted vests as children shouted and played. Other thousands camped along the roadsides. Workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees put up temporary shelters and passed out food, but they were unable to keep...
Just as the utility closet in my Italian restaurant seemed to have passed the accessibility inspection to the casual observer simply by virtue of being on the ground floor, creating a campus which is as welcoming as possible to all students is not just a matter of making sure makeshift substitutes are available in the place of full access. True changes in accessibility will take thought and planning, and must be made a priority...
...choked off. Hope, like everything else inside the city, now needs to be rationed carefully; overindulging only makes the want of it more keen. Last Wednesday afternoon about 50 people were on the street in the suburb of Dobrinja. The day was sunny, and many were digging in the makeshift vegetable gardens that Sarajevans have taken to cultivating in whatever scrap of dirt they can find. Suddenly, a Serb shell lanced in, killing six people. "The Serbs always like to catch us at such moments," said Nenad Tupajic, 26, a soldier who was patrolling the Dobrinja line. "That's their...