Word: makeshift
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...Comforts. Meantime, the boys settled down in the embassy's dank cellar. To keep from getting on each other's nerves, they have partitioned it into two separate living quarters, installed a makeshift bathroom and two kitchenettes with refrigerators, rewired the lighting, painted the walls, added furniture, even acquired television sets. They do calisthenics to keep in shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down...
...From makeshift bikinis to Paris originals, the life of Christine Keeler was discussed in intimate detail last week, not only in the House of Commons but also in every British newspaper. For all the sentimental and psychological clichés about a pretty child from a broken home, what emerged was a Circean odyssey of a girl who always knew what she-and what men-wanted...
...fourth ballot, late Thursday afternoon, Montini reportedly lacked only four of the 54 votes he needed for election. With the sixth ballot the next morning, the vote was nearly unanimous; the cardinals lowered the canopies above their makeshift wooden thrones until all but the one over Montini were collapsed. Approaching him, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, dean of the college, asked in Latin: "Do you accept the election canonically raising you to the post of Supreme Pontiff?" Murmured Montini: "Accepto, in nomine Domini [I accept, in the name of the Lord...
...irony of the Hueys' success is that they are makeshift killers, originally designed as utility aircraft and personnel carriers. But Huey pilots became convinced that their speedy, maneuverable choppers would be ideal support aircraft in the kind of guerrilla war situation that Southeast Asia presents. On their own, company personnel outfitted their Hueys with 16 homemade rocket mounts and four machine-gun brackets, pestered dubious brass for months to let them try out their ideas in action...
...Italians around an American flag, or that a massed charge of Neapolitan housewives armed with brooms broke the nerve of veteran troops. The resistance forces use modern weapons, look scared, and get shot in large numbers. They will rise up spontaneously and fight without organization. The struggle is so makeshift that indignant residents often ask the street-fighters to take their battles elsewhere. Only the occasional reappearance of the same characters and places gives continuity to a brisk sequence of skirmishes and personal episodes...