Word: makeshift
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...upset their lives. The Senate Military Affairs Committee,* after listening to the protests of such varied antidraft groups as the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., railway labor, the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, etc., had smothered the makeshift May-Bailey bill, which might have done...
...into essential industries and keep them there, was tht only legislation in sight. It was a little bedraggled by the time, last week, the House Military Affairs Committee hung it with its last amendment and finally reported it out. Now on the floor of the House, even this mild, makeshift measure faced an uncertain fate...
Last week Americans in Paris were imitating frugal Frenchmen who roll their own, getting the makings from old butts. Three butts make a full-sized smoke. A man with only two butts has to adopt another makeshift. He borrows a third from a friend, rolls his cigaret, smokes it, gives the butt back for further...
...surgeon stared at the queer arrangement in his neck and sent him on. Next stop was the clearing station, where Captain David Dunn of Westminster, Md. removed the pen top, put in a regular tracheotomy tube (which the air passes through, not around, as in the case of the makeshift wedge...
Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...