Word: makeshifts
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...write the names!” Hovering over the frail light of one tiny candle, Ian, who is usually seen late-night at the Spee doing interpretive dances, carefully scribed the names of every person in the room over and over and over. A makeshift assembly line emerged on the balcony while people compulsively ripped tiny scraps of paper into equal sizes, each annotated with a single name. A great heap of white bits was illuminated by the light of the candle while Harvard’s resident Daedalus rabble rolled up their starched white shirtsleeves and argued vehemently about...
...cultural gulf between them is immeasurable. Whereas Hakodate has a fastidious obsession with order and cleanliness, Sakhalin is rough and gritty, reflecting its history. Forgotten by successive Russian governments and weather-beaten by violent winter storms, Yuzhno is a mix of degraded Soviet architecture, dusty, potholed streets and makeshift stalls...
...number of men, and the government fears a rise in crime, prostitution and drug use as a swarm of bachelors roam the countryside. A hint of that future has already arrived in Shaanxi's Qiaogou village, where children play under a dusty apple tree, tossing scraps of vegetables as makeshift toys. The noise is the raucous glee of boys being boys. There is only one girl playing among them. Seven-year-old Xiaochun is astonished when asked what he thinks his future will hold. "I'll get married and be a good farmer of course," he says. Where will...
...practice rooms are open for a mere three hours on Saturday. Freshman practice rooms are often intolerably cramped and airless, house rooms are often little better, and the department building can seem dauntingly far away for many. Thus students often are forced to practice in their rooms or create makeshift practice areas...
...quite full-scale war. They were more civil unrest. But this is more of a full-scale war, period. The most dramatic event I've witnessed so far has been the evacuation of several dozen wounded from a mosque in the Nablus Casbah that had been converted into a makeshift field hospital. It was filled with severely wounded Palestinians, and the courtyard of the mosque was filled with the dead. People had been in this mosque, lying on the floor with virtually no medicine, suffering for, I suppose, several days. They were desperate. The Palestinians were desperate to get their...