Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golfers had scored decisive victories against Holy Croas and Brown before the roof fell in at Ithaca. Number three player Pete Tague and number five man Bob Seelert didn't make the trip, and the makeshift Crimson seven just couldn't hold on. The clincher came when John Olson dropped his match on the 21st hole...
...migrations are a perplexing problem for both governments. At India's biggest refugee camp, in Madhya Pradesh state, 500 miles west of the East Pakistan border, 50,000 Pakistani Hindus are crammed into makeshift tents and huts. There are only six doctors for the entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...makeshift laboratory beneath Chicago's Stagg Stadium, Eugene Rabinowitch heard the tick of the future...
...system has bred an underground elite: the hard-to-find specialists who can make brand-new shoes wearable, alter off-the-peg suits and dresses so that they have a semblance of style, or give a broken appliance the "provisional" treatment, as the Russians call their intuitive knack for makeshift repairs...
Church, although no Russians attended his dedication ceremony. He thinks that Christ Church, with its makeshift, homespun quality, is appropriate to the role of Christianity in the Soviet Union and is a better symbol of what the church means than a cathedral. "A church isn't a building," he says. "It's a fellowship of people who come together to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The idea of the church in the home is one way of saying that every home has within it the potential of becoming a church. It has been said that religion...