Word: makeshift
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...faded blue in a young woman's washedout eyes while she mouthed "One grilled cheese sandwich, just for you." Sure, the ingredients weren't worth more than 20 cents, but the profits would be all be poured right into the gas tank of the rusting VW Bus behind her makeshift kitchen. You could hear it in her soft, "Thanks...
...know that it's a problem because we don'tget any University funding," adds Jared E. Bush'96, a trombone player with the bank. "We have areally good jazz band considering that we don'thave any University support, but we're kind ofstuck in a makeshift basement. There's noacoustics...
...marauding bands of men hacking down women and children on sight. Severed heads and limbs piled up on street corners, the smell of decay fouling the air. No matter how many bodies Red Cross workers collected, more appeared. Boys carrying hand grenades threatened passing cars, while drunken soldiers at makeshift barricades terrorized civilians scurrying by. In a city without electricity or water, the foolish few who ventured out into the streets to forage for food were too traumatized to eat after passing rows of mutilated bodies lying in pools of blood. "Hundreds of thousands are cut off from anything decent...
...honoree feeds, clothes and teaches homeless children out of a makeshift classroom in San Diego, Kunin said. The teacher also helped one of her students with an interest in marine biology eventually go to college and received a masters degree...
...clear. They must be fed, cared for and protected. Further more, anyone who wants to leave Kigali must be made free to do so. As foreigners are escorted out of Rwanda by their own military forces, native residents can only look on. Where are the tent cities, the makeshift hospitals, the guarded convoys of refugees? Though these are the lamentable bastions of civil war, they do serve a humanitarian purpose. And still, the aid of the U.N. has been missing...