Word: makeshifts
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...decision to recall the substitutes was against the judgments of many of the crew supporters at Yale who felt that the recall of substitutes and the boating of a makeshift crew would do more to hurt rowing relations than to help them. The coaches feel, however, that the men recalled will make a powerful and able combination. Practice and the difficulty of teaching teamwork in so short a time are the sole discouraging factors...
Harvard players, after introducing themselves and their hometowns—the Massachusetts natives to scattered applause—spent the rest of the hour practicing drills and makeshift doubles matches...
...Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound cardboard boxes filled with clothes - his first makeshift punching bag. Wiry, tanned and talkative, 54-year-old Dionisia nowadays lives next door to Pacquiao's new house, in a smaller place her son bought her. She leaves little doubt who her favorite child is: "He is like a Xerox copy of me," she says. The resemblance...
...blocking group from Canaday lamented its fate as it watched its housing prospects sink along with its makeshift boat. These six females, like many other first-years last night, were participating in a pre-housing ritual in hopes of skewing the Freshman Lottery, which assigns upperclass housing to first-years, in their favor...
...Prague Once a month, a streetcar gets turned into TRAMix?a mobile party wagon, fitted with a 1,000-watt sound system and two makeshift bars. TRAMix sets off from the Malostransk? n?mest? tram stop and, to a soundtrack of thumping house music, takes some 50 revelers on a 21/2-hour cruise around the capital. Check out www.b52.cz; tickets...