Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surfers get their kicks on the combers at Sydney's Neilson Park, zipping through shark nets so ragged that they no longer stop sharks, only surfers. At Huntington Beach, Calif., the gasser is "pier shooting" - hurtling between the concrete pilings of a pier. But these pastimes are only makeshift substitutes for riding the "heavies" off Makaha, a lonely beach on the west coast of Oahu that is every surfer's idea of paradise...
...Road to Freedom by John Stewart The words rang with new meaning in the chill night air, and the two folk singers were understandably a little anxious. On either side of the makeshift stage, grim-faced soldiers stood guard with burp guns at the ready while a barrage of flares, tracer bullets and phosphorous shells exploded and flashed eerily in the distance. But the singers sang out lustily. The audience, Vietnamese troops with rifles cradled in their arms, listened intently to their next song, Raghupati, one of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite hymns...
...recent months, 20,000 Catholic peasants have descended from the mountainous central region to the coastal city of Quinhon, where most of them now huddle in eleven makeshift camps -5,000 live in the gardens of the local cathedral. Many fled because their villages were overrun by the Viet Cong, others because they feared it was about to happen. For quite a few it was a second exodus: they first moved when the Reds took over North Viet Nam ten years ago. North or South, Catholics are treated more harshly by the Reds than are Buddhists. There are, of course...
Freyre spoke before a meeting of the Latin American Association which had been scheduled for the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, but which overflowed into and filled the Kirkland dining hall. The Brazilian lectured from a makeshift podium fianked by Kirkland House serving tables while his audience sat at dining tables throughout the room. Glancing up at the Kirkland decor, Freyre remarked "I like the atmosphere here--not too formal--you have managed to capture the feeling of, perhaps, a Paris cafe...
Even while President Johnson was brooding in the Waldorf ballroom, White House Press Secretary George Reedy summoned reporters to a special briefing in a makeshift press room near by. Red-eyed and visibly shaken, Reedy announced: "Walter Jenkins submitted his resignation this evening as special assistant. The resignation was accepted, and the President has appointed Bill D. Moyers to succeed...