Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because we know he could have made it," Angela Sanders, the daughter of slain teacher William "Dave" Sanders, said in a television appearance earlier this week. The students who showed Sanders pictures of his family as he lay dying wanted to carry the teacher out on a makeshift stretcher; police said no, and by the time paramedics reached him hours later, Sanders was beyond help. Criticism has centered on the first half hour of the rampage, and whether the SWAT team did enough to stop the carnage and contain the teenage killers. Doubters have included a fellow Colorado police officer...
There is no Radcliffe name to hide behind any more. Radcliffe cannot serve as a makeshift women's center. It is now Harvard's obligation to provide women with space. And Harvard must find a way to revamp RUS so that women's organizations still have funding. Harvard has to care...
...street in Dunster and Mather Houses, Dining Hall General Manager Richard M. Spingel and his crew had been moving tables since late Saturday night to make room for the two large wind-surfing sails they hauled in early yesterday morning. Eliot House boasted a frozen drink bar in a makeshift thatched hut and swaying schools of helium-balloon fish weighted down by pineapples. Signs instructed diners to "eat your fruit or wear it on your head...
...whim, Romolo Del Deo '82 sent a letter to his House master in 1979, looking for some makeshift studio space in Adams House so he could escape the cramped room in the Carpenter Center that he shared with another student artist...
...first cross-Atlantic solo race. Her dream came true in 1991, when she became the first woman ever to complete the Around Alone challenge. But even that huge triumph was not without trial. Rough seas and high winds claimed her mast as she neared Australia. With a makeshift rig, she was able to reach port and make repairs. She finished the race, but her boat came in seventh...