Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Depicted on the cover by Painter David Stone Martin carrying the makeshift lamps they sometimes use when moving at night...
...festival part was plenty festive. The throngs watched psychedelic movies, strolled through a mod midway of booths offering everything from underground buttons to paper dresses, dug the din of makeshift steel bands, and scattered over the grounds with guitars and blankets to strum, sing, socialize, or simply sleep. Onstage in the 7,000-seat arena, an English group called The Who set off smoke bombs, smashed a guitar and kicked over their drums. American Singer Jimi Hendrix topped that by plucking his guitar strings with his teeth, and for an encore set the entire instrument on fire...
...area bulldozed flat and made into a "death strip" in which anything that moved would be machine-gunned, mortared or bombed to bits. To accommodate the displaced villagers, the government is hastily building its 336th refugee camp a few miles to the south in the Cua Valley-a makeshift settlement of 200 large tents, one for every 100 refugees...
...that Theresa is gone, Hazen's waitresses are an undistinguished lot, a makeshift collection of young girls, middle-aged women, and grandmothers. Only wiry Chas, the efficient cook, has any class. Joe Blitman leaves Hazen's in the midst of a Mamas and Papas sing-along...
...mile relay team of McKelvey, Frank Snowden, Frank Haggerty, and Joe Sam Robinson handily topped the Green in 3:22.4. Harvard won the two-mile relay with a makeshift quartet, as Dartmouth didn't enter a team...