Word: makeshifts
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...next day a makeshift tribunal consisting of five mullahs was set up in a corner of the prison yard. They sent a few new prisoners to the execution squads before my time came for interrogation. One of the clergymen asked me whether I remembered where my brother was. When I replied that I didn't know, the mullah said to his colleagues, "Why keep such vermin alive anyway?" They nodded. My interrogator came for me and waved a paper under my nose. "Well, it's all over, this is your writ of execution," he said...
...notorious employer of illegal farm laborers is Ukegawa Brothers Inc., a large tomato grower in northern San Diego County. Says Chris Hartmire, an assistant to the president of the United Farm Workers of America: "The Ukegawa workers are living on the ground, under trees, under shrubs, in makeshift huts. They're in a semi-slave situation." The workers bathe in irrigation canals and often drink contaminated water...
...cruel enough that the collapse occurred when the lobby was at its most crowded. But even more people died because the lobby's makeshift ballroom and the main exits happened to be directly beneath the plummeting walkways. Said Betty Webb: "The first thing I knew I was on the bottom and some girl was on top of me. We were just piled up helter-skelter and the structure was on top of us." A chunk of walkway came thudding down a few feet from Tea Dance Veteran Julie Halford. "The impact threw me against a concrete railing," she said...
While more than 1000 people gathered for a candlelight vigil at the Boston Common, fans scrawled "Lennon Lives" on several Cambridge buildings and Harvard Square merchants set up makeshift shrines in their front windows to eulogize Lennon, who was shot and killed in front of his New York City apartment building on December...
...lofts of the servants; and most of the action, appropriately enough, occurs in the middle ground. Figaro's wedding procession winds through the audience and the several rendezvous in the Count's garden take place under green-and-white nets hung from the ceiling as a sort of makeshift forest. Epstein's staging and Edmunds' design, in other words, are as inventive as Beaumarchais' plot...