Word: makeshift
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...rally also attracted locals, including one gray-haired man who approached the makeshift speaker’s podium in his plaid shirt before the rally and announced his firm opposition...
...shot dead in the rebellion. Government soldiers, meantime, have rounded up foreigners and police burned neighborhoods after President Gbagbo said that they would "clean" insalubrious areas. "We are not safe. We no longer dare go beyond the fence," says Mariah, a refugee from Liberia who lives in a makeshift camp in Abidjan. Into this confusion, France last week sent some 70 soldiers from the 11th Parachute Brigade to set up a tactical headquarters for the 1,000 French troops already deployed. The troops' arrival marks a shift in France's policy toward her former African colonies. In the past, France...
...walks of student life. There were boisterous groups of friends for whom the clay party was clearly a prelude to the rest of the evening, laughing and marveling at the spinning lumps of muck before them. More serious sculptors huddled over their creations as they took shape. Many donned makeshift garbage-bag smocks as they dove into giant buckets of white and brown stoneware clay, and then kneaded, pounded and slammed it to free it of air bubbles...
...makeshift line and the pressure of being an every-down back don’t seem to overwhelm Palazzo, who right now seems thrilled just to be starting...
Except for the dozens of pricey sunglasses on a table by the front door, you wouldn't know a star lived in this modest house high above Sunset Boulevard. Books and papers are stacked everywhere. Part of the living room is a makeshift office. She has outgrown the place, yet her eyes well up when she talks about selling it. "I'm having moving-on anxiety," she says. "But it will be on the market when we get closer to moving into our damn home." That home is a stately mansion she and Pitt purchased in Beverly Hills...