Word: makeshift
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...entire life had already occurred. The event had taken place when he was 10. He had been sitting stop one of the powerful diesel engine tractors on his father's prosperous Lewis County dairy farm. The tractor lurched forward unexpectedly. The 80-pound boy fell off his makeshift seat and into the tangle of steel blades. It was a wonder he wasn't decapitated was the comment from the doctors who saved his life. As it was, he lost both legs...
...third higher than those in Anchorage-if there is anything on the shelves to buy. Housing has become so tight in Valdez that the monthly rent for one two-bedroom apartment recently jumped from $286 to $1,600. The sewage system is overloaded, children are attending school in makeshift classrooms, and traffic snarls the muddy streets...
...white Frisbee skittered and soared across the spring afternoon as students scrambled between rows of sugar maples that marked the sidelines of a makeshift playing field. An uninformed visitor to the Tufts University campus in Medford, Mass., last week might well have decided that the "Third Invitational Mother's Day Classic" had been taken over by platoons of demented discus throwers. What the galloping giddiness actually involved was an Ultimate Frisbee game between Tufts and Hampshire College of Amherst, one of the final events of the season for the nation's newest intercollegiate sport...
...LANH VA QUAT KHI RA VE, instructed the sign on the bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...
...take whatever they wish. Children who sell gasoline by the pint fight among themselves to pour their wine bottle's worth into the tank of a car for a few hundred riels, about 300. The homeless, the maimed, the wretched, the exhausted squat on the streets, huddle under makeshift canvas stalls...