Word: makeshifts
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...Straw is the story of Abeba, the "African Flower," who is born in rural North Carolina to an absentee father and a resentful mother. That mother soon disappears, bound for Brooklyn. Abeba's first six years pass happily with old Mamma Habblesham, a midwife, in this land of makeshift and make-believe...
...bullet in his back in a small hospital in Riohacha, Colombia. He explained to authorities that he and McLemore had been flying down to Venezuela to pick up oil-drilling bits. But they had had engine trouble near the Colombian coast and were forced to land on a makeshift runway. Then, claimed Spradley, he was set upon by Indians wearing loincloths. They shot him, robbed him and left him by the plane...
While their fellow protesters cheered from across the road, the demonstrators walked into the Denver County Sheriff's department bus. Magistrates were standing by to receive the demonstrators at a makeshift booking station at the U.S. Geological Survey headquarters in Lakewood, a Denver suburb. Six attorneys accompanied the demonstrators and offered free counsel...
...situation is worsening," an hydrologist for the National Weather Service said yesterday. The river rose to 20 feet above flood stage and just a foot below the brim of the weakened makeshift dikes...
...TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman from Sanandaj: "At Ghanzeh Hospital a man sat holding the severed head of his three-year-old daughter, who along with her four brothers and sisters was killed when a mortar round dropped into the yard where they were playing. As doctors worked in a makeshift operating room on the floor of the hospital corridor, flights of helicopters fluttered overhead, ferrying army reinforcements to the garrison from Kermanshah, an hour to the south. The fighting took a vicious turn the next day when the army moved tanks to the city center. Kurdish guerrillas dashed from alley...