Word: makeshift
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...Over that road, flow all the supplies that get into China from the outside world, including fuel for Claire Chennault's tiny but vastly effective Fourteenth Air Force. The supplies are unloaded at the Assam terminus, transshipped to aircraft and whisked over the Hump, the Allies' aerial makeshift for the lost Burma road...
...Shift. In clothes-rationed London, shift-hungry women hit on a makeshift: unrationed blackout cloth...
...last definite vestige of a foreign policy which this nation has exhibited was the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trine. Since then, to the day of Pearl Harbor, our foreign policy has been makeshift . . . and opportunist. It has been hoping for the best while taking no measures to prepare for the worst. From the Presidency of Mr. Monroe until this day the Monroe Doctrine has been accepted by Great Britain. . . . Great Britain was our unacknowledged ally in the preservation of the two Americas from foreign aggression...
Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
...Allies let their wishes be known as the French Committee of Liberation met for a showdown over the issue of military control. Out of a three-hour session emerged a makeshift compromise. General Giraud remained as Commander in Chief of the North and West African troops (300,000), with his own army, navy and air chiefs of staff. General de Gaulle remained as Commander in Chief of forces (90,000) elsewhere in the Empire, also with his own chiefs of staff. The two commanders and their staffs would operate as a committee to supervise military reform...