Word: makeshifts
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Summers, wearing a standard-issue black yarmulke, spoke from a small makeshift stage near the center of the hall. Yet without amplification—use of electronic appliances is forbidden during the Jewish sabbath—he was nearly inaudible to much of the maximum capacity crowd...
...makeshift ballroom at Ford Field, the Detroit Lions' stadium, a Beatles tribute band is playing I Want to Hold Your Hand, which has got the élite of Motor City moving and shaking, but not the hosts of the black-tie charity ball, William Clay Ford Jr. and his wife Lisa. In fact, the 48-year-old CEO of Ford Motor Co. is getting teased by his brother-in-law about his ineptitude on the dance floor. Turning to a reporter, Bill owns up to it. "You don't want to see that," the Ford scion says with a laugh...
...other seasonal ailments. "The quake destroyed the entire private set-up of village doctors and paramedics," says Faisal Edhi, trustee of Karachi-based NGO the Edhi Foundation. "There is a shortage of doctors and nurses, so people now have to travel far to get to the doctors in makeshift medical camps." Because people have no money for fuel, they can't cook meals, adds Rana Khurshid Amed, a Neelum Valley forestry official, "so they look to the government and to God for help. It's only God who is there. Let's see how many people survive the snow...
...Indeed, the Sudanese turned the park into their residence. Children were born in the makeshift tents held up by tree branches; weddings were celebrated; fellow refugees who transgressed against others were punished there (a makeshift cage was set up among the trees to incarcerate the offenders). But sanitary conditions declined severely and the Egyptians who lived in the high-toned neighborhood around the park complained to authorities of human waste and garbage proliferating. Three refugee children died because of illness and exposure to cold temperatures. Meanwhile, mosque personnel complained that the Sudanese were sitting on the sidewalk beside the mosque...
...late Friday night, riot police surrounded the makeshift camp with public transport buses on hand ready to move the refugees to camps in the desert of Dahshur near the Saqqara pyramids in Giza. For almost four hours police officers used microphones to urge the protesters to peacefully end their sit-in. The refugees responded by throwing empty liquor bottles, iron rods, stones, and tree branches at the police. Police reacted by directing high-powered water jets at the refugees. As the police set upon the refugees, a stampede ensued. The clash ended with about 20 deaths and at least...