Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old lawyer, had once been an errand boy for Trujillo. The other members include a truckline operator, two heart doctors, a businessman, a Roman Catholic priest-and one of the triggermen who killed Trujillo. The news out of the Dominican Republic last week is that this makeshift regime is now ruling with a surprisingly sure hand...
...confusion, three Peronista Deputies, using wet handkerchiefs as makeshift gas masks, managed to slip into the building where 65 other Deputies were trying to hold a session. When the Peronistas arrived to take their seats, the chamber erupted into bedlam-many Deputies loudly defended their presence, some screamed insults at them. Becerra vainly shouted for order, but gave up in despair. He ordered the chamber lights turned off and left the room. The Deputies filed from the building, trying to pick their way between police and rioting Peronistas. One Deputy, slowed by a lame leg, was hit in the chest...
...projected courts would the be the first such in the Ivy League. Choate, a preparatory school in New York State, has indoor courts, and Yale has two makeshift canvas-covered courts in Payne-Whitney Gym. Harvard's courts would have the same surface as the varsity outdoor courts (standard green) to avoid any complaints about continuing indoors a match begun outside...
Without Good Will. Industries and mail-order stores organized their own makeshift postal services. Unhappiest vic tims by far were a Yorkshire laborer, Len Darnton, and Surrey Garage Hand Gabby Senecal, who both mailed in winning football pool coupons but failed to collect $27.000 and $75,000 because their entries were not delivered in time...
Speaking at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Ralph E. Lapp questioned the value of designating makeshift shelters in the central cities and stocking them with food and water. Such a policy fails to give any protection against the blast or its heat wave, he declared. Without such protection, the chances for survival within six miles of the blast are very small...