Word: makeshift
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...group of unemployed migrant workers gathered last Friday morning on a field at a makeshift camp in Homestead, Florida. These laborers, handy with lumber and leather and cowhide, were not only looking for work but were also looking very familiar. One man, who bore a remarkable resemblance to former National League Rookie of the Year Chris Sabo, said, "Hopefully, I'll just be here for one day, but who knows in this situation? I've always been optimistic, but I'll just have to wait and see." Actually, it really was Chris Sabo. And former World Series mvp Dave Stewart...
...food hut is actually a check-in station for refugees and their machete-strapped buscones (guides). The men under the nut tree are lookouts, who meet groups of would-be immigrants arriving from Santo Domingo and direct them to hiding places in safe houses and the surrounding jungle. Makeshift boats--weighted down by rocks and submerged in the stream near town--are waiting to take the travelers to the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where they can easily board a flight to New York City. Even the chickens have a role in this secret commerce: three times...
...turned out, those precautions were not necessary. Cult members appeared to know the police were coming. Before the troops approached the main compound at Kamikuishiki, 110 miles west of Tokyo, the faithful swept searchlights over the grounds. When the siege force reached a makeshift barricade at the entrance, a young man shouted, "The Aum Supreme Truth has nothing to hide! It is an unjust search, but we will cooperate...
Also, some rape victims in Massachusetts now have to wear makeshift clothes home because their clothes are retained for evidence...
...first step is for liberal proponents of affirmative action to acknowledge that race-based affirmative action began as a compromise, a makeshift stand-in for more substantial social policy. Unwilling to spend massive amounts of money to improve the prospects of ghetto children, the government pressured employers and universities to lower the hurdles for Black adults...