Word: makeshifts
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...Western-style bungalow on a hillside where we set up a makeshift embassy had housed an American military adviser. Where his Korean army unit was now could only be guessed. In a parting gesture, he had smashed the typewriter, and broken keys littered the floor. Exhausted, I lay down among them. When I awoke, the American ambassador, John Muccio, a tough Italian American, was pacing the darkened room, pounding his fists together gleefully, repeating over and over, "We're coming in, we're coming in." President Truman had acted. Korea's war was now America...
...When we walked through the door, the only things in the room were a makeshift bar and a handful of guys--the ones who lived there...
...view completely at odds with their parents'. Dilip Massand, co-founder of Masala.com an Internet site for the second generation that he hopes to build into a "virtual diaspora," was raised from the age of six months in the New York City borough of Queens. Massand remembers going to makeshift Hindu shrines in people's basements. "The Catholics had beautiful churches, and the Jews had elaborate synagogues," he recalls. "I remember asking myself why our gods lived in a basement...
...Myers seemed to work well with the makeshift practice facilities. The newcomer continually led the Crimson's downhill effort towards the end of the season...
...them to go, in space-age insulated bags.) On my working schedule, she penciled in a 5 a.m. sundae break (between revising chapters two and three). I didn't have time to eat it then. I ate it at 5 p.m. when I got home. Our makeshift freezer kept it cool and runny. I ate the sundae, as happy as I had ever been, and went to sleep for 16 hours...