Word: makeshifts
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Main confessions in Life's a Circus concern Lady Eleanor's makeshift life. Tame boarding school was relieved somewhat by frequent transfers, midnight escapes, one harum-scarum period in the family of a Belgian baron, when she turned a pack of Irish wolfhounds loose in the crowded ball room of the British Embassy...
Against Williams the Crimson presented a makeshift lineup since Walt Muther and John Palfrey were absent, but won as they pleased with Dave Burt and Captain Gilkey leading the way. Jack Stewart and Bill Everts scored the other Crimson singles wins, while all the doubles matches were swept by the Barnabymen...
...infections. In every case bleeding stopped within five minutes, the normal coagulating time, even though the patients had been bleeding as long as two hours. In many cases bleeding ceased within 45 seconds of injection. Oxalic acid thus appeared likely to supplant snake venom, sterol (solid alcohol) and other makeshift coagulants, likely to save thousands of lives every year...
...years a blustering impresario named Guy Golterman pushed and cranked at various makeshift means to get St. Louis grand opera going. Sometimes the singers he promised didn't show up; sometimes the operas he sold tickets for didn't get performed. His hopeful backers nearly always lost their operatic shirts. Two years ago they got tired and quit...
...more than 100,000 civilian refugees had made their way into France. The 150,000 defeated Catalonian soldiers swelled the refugee ranks to far more than the backward, rural Pyrenees district of France could handle. Camps had been built for the internment of the Loyalist fighting forces but these makeshift shelters were able to hold only 100,000. The rest of the soldiers and most of the civilians were forced to camp in the open...