Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small glacier airstrip for the use of U.S. planes. Then the U.S. Air Force got permission from the Norwegian government to send out search planes from its base near Reykjavic, Iceland and from U.S. bases in Germany. Later, two U.S. C-130 cargo planes touched down at the makeshift runway at Longyearbyen, unloaded two helicopters that the U.S. hurriedly leased from the Norwegian government...
...Associated Press Bulletin, New York) Police last night seized a man carrying a makeshift bomb behind the band shell from which Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was addressing a rally of 35,000 in Central Park. More than 1,000 policemen guarded Castro throughout his appearance...
Captain Hal Churchill scored two of the three point tries, while wing forward Ted Frembgen and hooker Albie Cullen accounted for the others. The score would doubtless have been higher had the makeshift field been equipped with goal posts to allow for the normal after-try conversions...
...Aaron's sure hand, however, that provides the necessary finesse. He handles the group scenes especially effectively; indeed, the best moment of the evening comes in scene four, when the priest is saying a makeshift Mass in the hut of the woman whose daughter he fathered. As the townspeople, genuflecting on the dirt floor, devoutly listen to the Latin words, Stephen Randall '60 (who does an excellent job in several bit parts) bursts into the hut with a warning that the police are three minutes away. The shock of this pronouncement frightens even the audience...
Typical of Banda's nimble maneuvering is his makeshift coalition Cabinet, where the political spectrum ranges from Communist-minded Food Minister Philip Gunawardena, 58, to an efficient combine of right-wing, pro-Western politicians...