Word: makeshift
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...sometimes edging forward down the packed roads at the frustrating rate of only 20 miles a day. In all, 500,000 people swarmed into the city, doubling Danang's population in a matter of days. Amazingly, most of them were swiftly absorbed, off the streets, out of the makeshift sidewalk shelters and shanties. They moved into all of Danang's 100 schools (8,000 packed into a single high school) and, with no direction from government authorities, quickly organized leadership committees, nominating a senior person in every classroom. Though some emergency rice arrived from volunteer relief groups...
...this: who in LaJolla or Orange County or Pasadena plays hoop on a makeshift. peach-basket-and-dirt court behind a shotgun house? Who in sunny California dribbles his digits numb in snow, rain, gravel and mud, day in, day out, religiously, every day of the year...
...full bounty, as much a great pianist as a cosmic romantic force. Unhappily, French Co-Director François Reichenbach is a sloppy, indiscriminate documentarian. His last contribution was the scrambled paean to the glories of rock culture, The Medicine Ball Caravan (1971). The Rubinstein film betrays the same makeshift style, the same kind of groupie's reverence. It does not serve Rubinstein well, but serving him at all makes the film notable...
...Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who recently visited Suez city. "Three knocked-out Israeli tanks are gathering rust at the entrance to the city, with little children playing soldiers on them. In a building still blackened from being burned out, a baker pulls trays of flat bread out of the makeshift oven, while a shop opened beneath twisted iron shutters offers transistors and domestic appliances. Above the din of the crowd, there is the hum of bulldozers and the clatter of sledgehammers as workers battle to clear the debris of hopelessly damaged buildings...
Loaded down with 40-lb. backpacks, the executive hikers log about five to ten miles each day. During rest periods, O.B. leaders give lessons in first aid and wilderness survival. Each evening the group staggers into a makeshift campsite, then wearily prepares a dinner of chicken stew, Turkey Good N' Hearty or another freeze-dried delicacy...