Word: makeshifts
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...impoverished country like India, Hari goes to the roadside vendor, pays more money for fewer vegetables because there simply aren't enough to go around, returns to his shanty and puts them on the makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...
...roof of the building--avoiding for a moment the circle of hell they have been assigned. The cramped and airless space within is subdivided into 32 cubicles doled out to at least 100 men. The stink of sweat, unwashed clothing, old shoes and garbage suffuses the narrow makeshift corridors. Cooking noises mingle with the gurgle of kitchen-side urinals. On tiny TV sets, a few men watch home videos of kin and country long left behind, for some as much as a decade ago. Others stare at the distant passion of porn tapes smuggled in from the old homeland. Each...
...underdog against the Boston University Terriers. B.U. is, after all, the 17th-ranked team in the nation and boasts a 5-2-1 record. And with this season's paltry start (1-4-1, 1-1 Ivy League), Harvard's hopes seemed dim yesterday facing B.U. at its makeshift home field at the Middlesex School in Concord...
...spring, student activists camp out in makeshift shanties in front of University Hall and remain there through Commencement...
Within two weeks five tutors-all Scarsdale High School grads-had volunteered, and The Community Church at the Circle in Mount Vernon donated its facilities for the thrice-weekly class. As word spread, anonymous donations poured into Lang's makeshift "office" set up temporarily in her bedroom at home. A local bookstore sold the program SAT prep books at cost and several professional teachers also donated course materials. Other donations included cash gifts and used prep books...