Word: makeshifts
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...near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial law in December 1981. The inscription beneath the picture read KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES. For the mourners who added their candles to countless others flickering under the makeshift memorial, no other identification was necessary...
Time and again, the astronauts devised ingenious makeshift solutions to overcome gremlins. With nearly all of its objectives accomplished, NASA insists that the shuttle "is now a fully mature space-plane." That may be an exaggeration, but the 13th shuttle flight, the sixth by Challenger, can boast at least one notable achievement. Although Crippen, Sullivan, Leetsma, Jon McBride, Sally Ride, Paul Scully-Power and Marc Garneau of Canada were crammed into an area the size of a small studio apartment, they made it through eight days without any noticeable clashes or even displays of temper. Marveled Crippen of the largest...
...Padres had a right to gulp when they arrived in Chicago and found that the four makeshift umpires breaking the strike (and mangling the strike zone) hailed from the Illinois townships of Deerfield, Des Plaines, Northbrook and Arlington Heights. Anyone who could read the signs at Wrigley Field (MY HUBBY FOR A CUBBY) and the signals everywhere else around the country knew that there were few impartial observers anywhere. When the tournament shifted to San Diego, the amateur umps were brought in from Arizona, and the Padres were revived...
According to the report, at least 8,961 people disappeared during those years, many of the victims vanishing after the military took power in a 1976 coup. Large numbers were tortured to death in "subhuman" makeshift centers that lacked ventilation, plumbing and other amenities, where jailers used methods, such as prolonged outdoor burial up to the neck, that were "unknown in other parts of the world." Alfonsin thanked the commission for its "hard, painful, heroic work" but did not indicate whether he would prosecute or even release the names of those accused of the crimes. The 60,000 citizens...
...agriculture for a living, and the country has been devastated by a four-year drought. The guerrilla war in the Sahara continues to cost at least $ 1 million a day. Two-fifths of the population is below poverty line, according to World Bank figures, and thousands live in makeshift huts in the increasingly swollen cities. Meanwhile, Hassan maintains a regal lifestyle. This week, for instance, he is host to a lavish celebration of a daughter's wedding in Fez, at one of nine sumptuous palaces...