Word: makeshift
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City workers using bulldozers dug a makeshift trench next to the car in an attempt to drain the liquid, which mixed with the moisture in the air to form an acrid, choking...
Despite the makeshift system, none of the average 150 alarms a day went unanswered. Fire trucks from some closed stations were consolidated with rigs at the open firehouses. Experienced chiefs, captains and other veteran nonstriking firemen supervised each task force. Police sped to the scene of fire alarms, canceling the call if it was false. On the site, the recruits usually hauled hoses while nonstriking veterans entered buildings to do the more dangerous work...
During a swim meet, Daniel positions himself in the stands directly above the finish line and begins his meticulous ritual. Before each race he listens attentively for the announcement of the competitors and neatly pencils their names into a makeshift scorecard in his looseleaf notebook...
This season of makeshift and grumbling, however, may turn out to have been the period in which the U.S., without really noticing that its attitudes have shifted, passed a balance point toward the acceptance of solar energy. A principle of architecture's postmodern school is that architecture is not an instrument of social change; it reflects social change. If that is true, then the solar age may be on its way. In San Diego County, all new residences built after Jan. 1, 1980, must have solar hot-water heaters. In Santa Fe, solar-home builders Wayne and Susan Nichols estimate...
...were assigned to mobile work teams after their parents' murder by the Khmer Rouge. When questioned by refugee caseworkers, many said they did not miss their parents. Similarly, parents in the camp showed little or no interest in the children they brought with them to Thailand. In a makeshift maternity ward at Sakaew, a Red Cross volunteer, Midwife Judith Greenberg of Oakland, Calif, told Clark that the mothers appeared not to care whether their babies were born dead or alive. "Many of the exhausted and sick mothers don't hold their babies or even look at them...