Word: makeshift
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...noon the stands were beginning to fill up. Old men and young boys were hawking the Record American, the Herald Traveler, and WilsonWaldo's tip cards at makeshift newsstands underneath the grandstand. I bought a program and walked outside to look at the track...
Homosexuality is not a lot of things. It is not a makeshift in the absence of the opposite sex; it is not hatred or rejection of the opposite sex; it is not genetic; it is not the result of broken homes except inasmuch as we could see the sham of American marriage. Homosexuality is the capacity to love someone of the same...
...head. A passing bicyclist jolted her, the bowl fell off, the food was spilled. The girl said nothing. She simply squatted on the ground looking at what she would have eaten that day as people trampled it. She was too numbed, too weary to retrieve it. At a makeshift Owerri food stand where the black-market pineapples cost two Nigerian pounds ($5.60) stood a young mother with a baby wrapped, African-fashion, in the robe around her back. The baby was starving, the mother had no money. She stood there for several minutes eying the food longingly. "We can look...
...enervated age, insecure from the recent death of God and the apparent dissolution of the moral universe, can ill afford to lose the concept of art as total resistance. Who else will defy the helpless clutching at makeshift gods by a society desperately in search of meaning? So you see why they are romantic heroes...
Making It Worse. If widely adopted, these makeshift devices could be dangerous. The need to refinance mortgages or bonds every five years or so would create endless headaches for home buyers and builders of schools, roads and factories. Variable interest rates would amount to a recognition that lenders expect continued inflation. That in itself could explosively aggravate the nation's inflationary psychology, which is the basic problem. In the long run, the U.S. simply cannot have healthy long-term capital markets in the midst of inflation. The need to ensure a continued flow of long-term money into houses...