Word: makeshifts
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...towards propagating the game. Another notable golfing afficionado was a British army captain named Joseph Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born in the New World...
Also new to the J.V., which races at 11 a.m., will be sophomore Mark Rechtenwald and junior Walter Bryzgornia, two members of Harvard's makeshift coxed-four that also won unexpectedly in San Diego...
...touch to the movie. It is almost as if Andy Warhol had decided to film Camelot. "Come in," Edie purrs soothingly, "we're not ready yet." She is thoroughly disorganized--she wears her dresses upside down, empties loaves of Wonderbread for the raccoons in the attic, dons a different makeshift scarf in each sequence to cover her head (which may or may not be bald...
...Cincinnati Reds' third baseman, Pete Rose, arrived in his Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce to work out at a West Tampa park normally used by Little Leaguers. New York Mets Pitching Ace Tom Seaver cadged $2 each from a pickup team of ballplayers to buy baseballs for early-March makeshift practice sessions. Like a youthful playground gang, a group of Oakland A's slipped through a hole in the fence of their sealed ballpark in Mesa, Ariz., to sneak in a little illegal batting practice...
AMIS USES A variety of devices to maintain a sense of alienation between the reader and the action. The least successful of these are the narrator's occasional clumsy interjections. For example, when Keith, the dwarf, contemplates his feet bloodied by the nails which protrude from his makeshift elevator shoes, the narrator intrudes with, "Well, we're sorry about it Keith, of course, but we're afraid that you simply had to be that way. Nothing personal, please understand--merely in order to serve the designs of this particular fiction...