Word: makeshift
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...Orleans' first stake race was run 104 years ago. A horse named Angora won it, running on a makeshift track near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, around a grove of moss-hung live oaks. For 36 years the track was a playground for Creole gallants and their blooded plantation ponies, for the stock fairs and horse races of New Orleans' Mechanics' Society. Eventually the informal track became the Fair Grounds...
...until twenty seconds before the end of the second period did Harvard score. Then the makeshift second line of Dick Noone at center with Gordie McGrath and Bob Cox on the wings turned the trick. After passing the puck around in Yale territory for a while, Noone saw fit to let one fly at the Bulldog goaler, Sophomore Card Meyer, who had started in place of Bud Kleckhefer, out with a broken bone in his face. Meyer blocked the shot, but McGrath pounced on the rebound for the initial Crimson tally...
...commander of the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning. His rank kept him remote from the men of Company D, 68th Armored Regiment (Light). Yet, to all of them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into the line of march, practically...
...good music, fine writing, kindly human relationships. Her family was not well off, her opportunities were limited, her observations bitter. At 20 she married a fellow Southerner and started work on her first novel, a long, cloudy story of a deaf-mute. Appearing last year under the publishers' makeshift title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, it won great critical acclaim. With the money from her book, Carson McCullers moved to Manhattan in search of kindred spirits...
...squash provided four defeats for Harvard. The B team was tripped by the Boston Y.M.C.A. on Wednesday, 3 to 2, and dropped to third place in the League standings. Orme Wilson and Bill Frothingham accounted for the two victories; Don Marvin, Doug Cochrane, and Sandy Parker lost. A makeshift C team went down before the University Club, 4 to 1, with Nelson Gidding providing the only...