Word: makeshift
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...tucked their curves into kiddie clothes at ex-Showgirl Gregg Sherwood Dodge's Thank Heaven for Little Girls fashion show to raise money for her pet charity-Girls' Town, U.S.A.-an as yet unbuilt Florida home for "abandoned" girls from ten to 18 years old. Onto a makeshift stage pranced such moppets as Actresses Susan Kohner, 25, Susan Strasberg, 24, and Tisha Sterling, 17, daughter of Actress Ann Sothern; then came a formation of New York-Rome jet setlets, led by Harper's Bazaar playgirl Christina Paolozzi, 22. All licked huge lollipops and cracked their bubblegum...
Harvard will be first in the Ivy League to have such a facility. Choate, a prep school in New York State, has indoor courts, and Yale, a university in New Haven, has two makeshift canvas-covered courts...
...Spaniards cut windows and doors in the blank adobe walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled...
...year-old lawyer, had once been an errand boy for Trujillo. The other members include a truckline operator, two heart doctors, a businessman, a Roman Catholic priest-and one of the triggermen who killed Trujillo. The news out of the Dominican Republic last week is that this makeshift regime is now ruling with a surprisingly sure hand...
...confusion, three Peronista Deputies, using wet handkerchiefs as makeshift gas masks, managed to slip into the building where 65 other Deputies were trying to hold a session. When the Peronistas arrived to take their seats, the chamber erupted into bedlam-many Deputies loudly defended their presence, some screamed insults at them. Becerra vainly shouted for order, but gave up in despair. He ordered the chamber lights turned off and left the room. The Deputies filed from the building, trying to pick their way between police and rioting Peronistas. One Deputy, slowed by a lame leg, was hit in the chest...