Word: makeshift
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Each morning the Iraqi artillery begin to find their targets. Deep in the standing reeds where the gunners cannot easily find them, black-robed women tend their children and few remaining buffalo in tiny makeshift clearings, while men, armed with old AK-47 assault rifles, crouch in hidden blinds along the waterways, waiting for Iraqi patrols. Only at nightfall, when the government troops return to their bases, can the men creep back to their families to sleep...
...Winthrop Drama Society production of Burn This is a great show--and the Winthrop House audience won't let you forget it. No words adequately describe the slapping of thighs and wobbling of bellies resonating through the makeshift theater in the Winthrop JCR. They laugh; they cry; they hoot; they grimace; they guffaw; they constitute a spectacle in themselves...
...dumbfounded. My composure finally fell apart. I didn't know how to react, and just then a security guard asked to see my press pass. For the first time all night, my makeshift Crimson cut-out didn't wash...
...symbolize the passing on of the hunger strike, Yale Law students also gave barbed wire and fencing to the Harvard Law students. These tokens were part of a makeshift "concentration" camp assembled by the Yale Law students at their school to advertise their support for the refuges...
Police have increased patrols and pay special attention to convenience stores and gas stations, but recent court rulings prevent Metro-Dade police from rousting the homeless from their makeshift camps. Until construction workers finish rebuilding South Dade, a process that could take years, police are resigned to battling wave after wave of troublemakers. "We're just waiting now for the plasterers from hell and the electricians from hell," says Cory Bryan, a detective in the Keys. "With our nice climate, they may never leave...