Word: makeshift
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...before ambulances arrived, and at first the dead were carried out of the stadium on sections of crowd-control barriers, some covered with flags and banners that only minutes earlier had been waved by cheering fans. The dead, their faces and limbs a grotesque purple, were taken to a makeshift mortuary outside the stadium, where priests administered the last rites...
...parties are planned around a feverish array of activities, all designed to keep the mind off booze. At Cherry Creek High School outside Denver, the postprom bash this year featured volleyball in the gym, water games in the pool, disco dancing, a magic show, ten video games and a makeshift casino. Free hot dogs, nachos and soft drinks were served, and as the party broke up at 6 a.m., there were doughnuts and juice...
...slippery at best, and the debate about their relationship remains a moot point on which many commentators have impaled themselves. In Floubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes winds thin strips of fact and interpretation around Flaubert like gauze bandage in an attempt to fix a rough outline, a makeshift profile--to make the Invisible Man of letters visible...
...structure will simplify the lines of authority in the Cabinet. Under the old plan, there were separate policy councils for a wide variety of makeshift realms, and this fragmented approach tended to stall in the face of major decisions. One significant implication of the organizational change is that Meese's role will be larger than previously supposed. A Reaganaut of long standing, he will have the broad charter to supervise social policy that he enjoyed as one of President Reagan's original "troika" of White House aides...
...with a makeshift lineup--four senior starters remained in Cambridge yesterday because of academic deadlines--and without the offensive firepower of graduated All-American Maggie Hart-who last year accounted for is percent of the Crimson's scoring-Harvard could muster little challenge for the nation's eighth-ranked Loyola team...