Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stalling their "good offices" mission to settle the rankling dispute between France and Tunis. Tunisian tempers were not improved as the first of thousands of Algerians uprooted from France's new no man's land along the Algerian-Tunisian frontier streamed into Tunisia and huddled miserably in makeshift tents...
...published by Lloyd's Bank on the fate of 100,000 paper clips revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...
...about 5 percent of the households, [in the U.S. economy] produces 90 percent of the wealth," the U.S. has yet to apply the full logic of K. & A.'s citizen-capitalism. Instead of broadening the base of capitalism, they argue, the U.S. merely redistributes earnings through an elaborate, makeshift system including the steeply graduated income tax, arbitrarily fixed high wages, surplus-producing subsidies, featherbedding, Keynesian deficit financing, etc. Through such "creeping socialism," labor's share of the wealth produced has increased from an estimated 50% in 1870-80 to 70% in 1956. Yet this redistribution, argue...
...Though makeshift and spotty, the play is not just one more movie-soppy, movie-safe bit of lonely hearts and flowers, or just one more cleverish game of theatrical double-dummy stage writing. It has its quite funny and its reasonably touching scenes, some nice dialogue, flashes of real theater, touches of real feeling. But it mingles thematic movement with technical bar-chinning, the capacities of an author with the commonplaces of a situation. And though it does not falsify its ending, it oversentimentalizes it. As a two-character piece, it has wasted moments and overworked effects, more changes...
...MIDDLE EAST The Homeless For nearly a decade, the most sensitive political ganglion in the strife-racked body of the Middle East has been the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine. In tents and makeshift camps around Israel's borders from Gaza to Aleppo, they have lived-nearly 1,000,000 of them-in squalor and bitterness. Israel stubbornly refuses to take them back. The Arab countries just as stubbornly refuse to resettle them, on the grounds that this would be accepting defeat at the hands of Israel...