Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great crowd had gathered on the grassy expanse of Leopoldville's Grand Place. Small boys were perched in trees to get a better view, and teen-agers jammed the roof of the nearby African culture center. In the center of the square, cordoned off by police, stood a makeshift scaffold. A red circle had been painted in the middle of its collapsible wooden platform. A strong, rough rope hung down from the crossbar above. A row of open coffins, trimmed with gold and lined with white sheets, lay waiting on the ground below. Four enemies of Army Strongman Joseph...
...carry on his lifelong interest in biophysics in a laboratory in an abandoned passenger station of the Great Northern Railway. To work with him, he hired another Montana native, Bill Glasscock, who had just finished his training in physics at Montana State College. Using private funds, secondhand and sometimes makeshift equipment, and winding their own electric motors when they could not buy the ones they needed, they developed a miniaturized slow-speed tape recorder that could be worn by a man to record his electrocardiogram for ten hours. It was they who had the ingenious idea of playing back...
...Spain. Thousands of cheering Negroes lined the streets, and one man gallantly pulled off his shirt and laid it in the path of the visitor's car. Later, 1,100 schoolchildren put on a dance extravaganza. Then, seated on a throne beneath a purple canopy in a makeshift church on Port-of-Spain's outskirts, the visitor watched impassively as incense-swinging priests murmured prayers and the high priest read a long eulogy. Thus last week did Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Lion of Judah, King of Kings and Elect of God, begin a week's visit...
...wanted all those funny buildings around Plympton St. to be a House, he would have made them look like one. Adams House, in article and everything else, is a makeshift affair, but its very makeshiftness makes it perhaps the most stimulating and by far the most lovable of the Houses...
...Haji Pir pass. Pakistani units pulled back from the sand dunes of Rajasthan and the villages in the Vale of Kashmir. On both sides of the 1,000-mile border between West Pakistan and India, as the armies fell back, tens of thousands of displaced farmers abandoned makeshift huts and refugee compounds to begin the long tramp, with families and camels, back to their gutted homes and untended fields...