Word: makeshiftness
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...operation was finally performed in December--a week before Kadriu's daughter was born. It took 15 hours and involved details that sound more like makeshift engineering than surgery. First, doctors removed the remains of Kadriu's damaged eye and retrieved its surrounding membrane, which was reinserted after being filled with a piece of fat from Kadriu's buttock to create an eye-shaped mass with the remaining ocular muscles attached to it. It will later form a mobile platform for a false eye resembling a giant contact lens. Doctors then re-created an upper eyelid using cartilage from...
...were greeted by dirty ice and hordes of microwave trucks filled with television equipment and towering masts. Following a local's directions down Canal Street, we wandered to StrangeBrew, a local pub. Inside was a raucous scene: blinding lights, drunken men, officious politicians, self-important television executives and a makeshift stage. As we trailed into the bar, Adam Levine and Phil Griffin, executive producers of NBC's "Hardball," belted "Harvard!" at the tops of their voices. We were led down to a center table in front of the stage and instructed to sit and be good Harvard students...
That's how Lowell got a new student-kitchen over the summer. When she came to Lowell, Eck says the kitchen was in disrepair--"It was sort of a makeshift thing that you might make in your basement when...
First things first: I needed a new salt shaker (more than one coffee drinker had got a nasty surprise spooning salt out of the makeshift bowl I keep it in) and a tablecloth that actually fit. I ordered both from Williams-Sonoma williams-sonoma.com) This is where I first felt Screen Rage, a risk at many sites. This arises after you've just filled in every last scrap of personal data, except your shoe size and SAT scores, and the screen freezes on you. Don't think that Mr. Internet has saved anything for you. (If God is a woman, then...
...Michael E. Capuano (D-Somerville) is waiting on the makeshift set--two chairs and a fake tree--chatting easily with the program's host, M. Yawu Miller...