Word: makeshifts
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...most brutal scene in the film is not one of the plentiful tableaus of pre-adolescent Hitler Youth committing suicide as the city falls, nor of limbs being sawed off without anesthetic in makeshift, underground hospitals, but of a steel-faced Magda Goebbels poisoning each of her six cherubic blonde children shortly before her own suicide—giving them their “salvation,” as she writes in a letter, because it is “no longer worth it to live in a world after National Socialism...
Like it has all winter, the Harvard baseball team will be playing inside once again this weekend. But the venue will be nicer than the makeshift batting cages of Palmer-Dixon...
...American workplace. It was also one of the first times the issue of child care for working women became part of the public debate. FORTUNE magazine, in 1943, recognized the double duty that women were being asked to perform and suggested that something had to give. "If the present makeshift conditions are not cleared up, the effects can easily be imagined: a rise in absenteeism, worry, lowered morale--all of which means less production--not to mention permanent scars on the bodies and minds of American children." That was in 1943. You'd think we would have arrived at better...
...dozen people who routinely slip between China and North Korea, Hoeryong, which is located on the Chinese border in the north of the country, boasts a central market that teems with consumer goods: sacks of rice and corn, boxes of apples, bananas and tangerines. On wooden tables under makeshift awnings, merchants peddle not just pork and fish but also Japanese televisions and VCRs, South Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase a home, an outrageous capitalist sin in a country where private property...
...economy have helped pry open the country just enough for its people to glimpse the possibilities of a better life. In many parts of the country, North Koreans were already seizing the initiative by going into business for themselves, giving rise to privately owned bakeries, tailor shops and makeshift gasoline stands. Along the borders, people use Chinese-made mobile phones and Chinese cellular networks to arrange trade deals with partners in South Korea and on the mainland. A few citizens even drive their own cars--a privilege previously reserved for high-ranking officials...