Word: makeshift
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...Inspiration Flowed." Rome was not built in a day, and neither were Manzù's doors. In 1947, the sculptor entered an international competition for new portals to replace makeshift oak ones that were considered temporary for 500 years. He won out over 76 other artists. But once he had won, Manzù admitted, the commission bored him. He cast, and then rejected, a scale model of the doors in 1954, eventually discarded more than 300 sketches for the project...
Pentabonn. As a result, government ministries are strung miles apart in makeshift, inadequate buildings that range from a pre-empted hotel, where each office has a private bath, to a converted Wehrmacht barracks. Embassies are scattered from Cologne, 18 miles north of Bonn, to Rolandseck, ten miles south in the neighboring state of Rhineland Palatinate, where the Russians have taken over an old resort hotel. Chilean diplomats must work above the din of a five-and-dime store on the floor be low; the small, ugly British chancellery is smack in the middle of a cornfield, across the street from...
Confined by the structural limitations of the building, the present library has had to get by with makeshift modernization. Attempts to add a poetry-listening room and one typing room have only made these limitations painfully clear. In addition, the aged staff elevator clatters and shakes, and library offices have been squeezed into unlikely corners by immediate needs for more shelf space...
...golfers had scored decisive victories against Holy Croas and Brown before the roof fell in at Ithaca. Number three player Pete Tague and number five man Bob Seelert didn't make the trip, and the makeshift Crimson seven just couldn't hold on. The clincher came when John Olson dropped his match on the 21st hole...
...makeshift laboratory beneath Chicago's Stagg Stadium, Eugene Rabinowitch heard the tick of the future...