Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion that the drivers' 750-h.p. days at the track would be followed by even faster nights ends up a wreck too. There's a traveling ministry on the NASCAR circuit, and drivers and their families attend Sunday services in a makeshift chapel near the pits. Gordon and his wife Brooke, a former Miss Winston, are often the first two people at Saturday-night Bible study. On race day she'll give him a verse from Scripture, and he'll tape it to his steering wheel...
...middle of the conversation [the Kosovar doctor] took out of his jacket a makeshift little wallet," Leaning says. "He had a picture of one of his patients... he also had two photographs of microscope slides... documenting the extent of the infection in the central nervous system...
...after some 750,000 displaced Kosovars now under the alliance's care in the Serbian border regions of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina: plenty of tents and blankets, food and water, and even battery chargers for cell phones so that refugees can contact their relatives. In some camps, makeshift convenience stores have sprung up, selling soda, meat pies and other homelike conveniences at affordable Balkan prices. But as international aid workers fight traditional camp scourges such as cholera and dysentery, they are also starting to gripe about another epidemic, one peculiar to the age of the televised war: celebrities...
...case of Star Wars, Holst's "The Planets" had been used in film, television, and even radio as soundtracks to space-related media; Williams knew that, and composed accordingly. As George Lucas was filming the original Star Wars, he used the work of Wagner and Holst as a makeshift soundtrack. When the time came for the creation of an original track, he asked Williams to create something similar...
...case of Star Wars, Holst's "The Planets" had been used in film, television, and even radio as soundtracks to space-related media; Williams knew that, and composed accordingly. As George Lucas was filming the original Star Wars, he used the work of Wagner and Holst as a makeshift soundtrack. When the time came for the creation of an original track, he asked Williams to create something similar...