Word: makeshiftness
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...around the Sir Galahad, four helicopter pilots flew behind the vessel and turned their aircraft into gigantic fans: flying low, they used the downdraft of their rotor blades to push the rubber rafts to the safety of the beach. Ashore, all was chaos as casualties were brought to a makeshift field hospital and then flown by a continuous helicopter shuttle to the main British medical center at San Carlos Bay. Said an army doctor at Fitzroy: "I've seen some pretty awful injuries, but nothing as horrifying as this. All we can do is put on special burn dressings...
...while he is sanguine about the "forseeable future." Rosovsky suggests that "at some point we're not going to be able to do it any more--it depends on the Faculty's priorities." His concern echoes aid officials' assumption that any current funding innovations are little more than makeshift. Lyman and Jewett talk of "tinkering with the edges" and "belt-tightening" without altering the basic lines of College policy. But such modification in the short-run, they say, will not resolve any of the philosophical questions that eventually will demand scrutiny...
Crowds lined the shores of the Charles Saturday to watch another crude flotilla of makeshift rafts exchange rounds of water balloons, fruit vegetables, eggs and less familiar objects. Thankfully, there were no dead mice this year...
...Sawyer's carrot-colored hair peeked out from under a floppy fishing hat, and his bare feet dragged in the muddy water as he and Huck Finn floated lazily down the river on a makeshift wooden raft. Nothing could have been more American-only the river was not the Mississippi; it was the Dnieper. And the actor playing Tom Sawyer was freckle-faced Fedya Stukov, 9, from Moscow...
...with the Israeli armed forces. Some of them were disillusioned settlers, and some were Jewish militants recruited in the U.S. Five boatloads of additional recruits attempted to reach Yamit last week, but four of the boats were blocked by the Israeli navy. The zealots claimed to have built a makeshift fortress for themselves in Yamit, and threatened to fight off Israeli efforts to remove them...