Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smacked of absurdity. In Central Park, a stroller looked up and for a magic moment imagined that the darkling towers beyond the trees were medieval ramparts. The murky streets looked like a blend of pagan ritual and July-Fourth celebration, as thousands groped about with matches, candles, flashlights, even makeshift torches of burning newspaper...
...volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...
...President Kenneth Kaunda has castigated them harshly: "Call them nationalists! I call them stupid idiots who do not know what they are saying." Even in the present crisis, the two Nationalist parties do not cooperate. While they threaten lurid bloodshed, they have not been able to organize even a makeshift government in exile, much less a general strike in Rhodesia. Their weakness may well be Smith's greatest strength...
...soon. Groaning under the weight of 44 million manuscripts, books, prints and other material, and faced with an annual increase of a million items, the library has had to stack its hoard in the offices and passages of its two existing buildings and consign the overflow to such makeshift extensions as a former aircraft paint hangar in Middle River, Md., 50 miles from the capital...
...Cream, Mulberry Maroon, Chicle Drab. The job of the restorer is to return the car as close to factory condition as possible. Many of the cars are rescued from the junk heap; others are bought from philistines who have put in engines from other cars and replaced original with makeshift parts. To discover how the car once was, restorers thumb through old Ford service booklets, then set out to find the missing parts. Many are found at the restorers' annual swap. A perfectionist who had been looking for five years for a i-in. front-seat adjusting screw picked...