Word: makeshift
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After a tipsy two-hour battle, Harvard succumbed in its first-ever minigolf tournament to a more powerful Boston University squad and makeshift teams from three other local colleges last night...
Responding to an article in The Boston Globe, the council condemned a planned promotion at HMV which would have placed Madonna's new book, Sex, on a makeshift altar, where for a $3 donation to AIDS research, customers over 18 could look through the book. People dressed as nuns and priests would have collected the donations...
...Makeshift Lineup...
...going to have someone fill in and go with a makeshift lineup," Caples said...
...switches, they herd the people into neat rows at the rear of a large earthen courtyard. In 30 minutes more than 2,000 people are seated on the ground while others stream in: nomad women wrapped in black shawls, grandmothers in tattered sackcloth, lone children naked but for a makeshift shirt. At one point the crowd seethes forward. Guards, screaming, strike the women on their bare backs. Discipline, of a sort, is restored...