Word: make-shift
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Referring to a red tie hanging from a sprinkler, which functions as a make-shift tie-rack, Corker says that splitting his face time between administrators and students has its snags...
Occasionally, IP victims devise make-shift methods for coping with their problems. One high-priced middle-age executive believes deep down that he is a child masquerading as an adult. His solution: after an arduous day of pretending to be a grownup, he rushes home to eat Popsicles and play video games. It works for him, but for most IP sufferers Clance and Harvey would prescribe more standard measures: therapy, self-help groups and understanding friends. Clance also suggests that her patients remember a useful observation of W. Somerset Maugham's: "Only a mediocre person is always at his best...
...spent many of his nights on dirt floors. Sinnott says she only got to shower a few times—and in “make-shift showers” at that...
...Harvard University Marching Band—which set the pace with a rousing rendition of the Harvard Fight Song—dancers, jugglers and student performers wound their way down Mass. Ave. and through the Yard, finishing their lap before a make-shift stage set up in front of the John Harvard statue...
Clothed only in boxer-briefs and sneakers, they hefted their weapons— make-shift bludgeons made from large bouncy-balls duct-taped to the ends of broomsticks—and took fighting stances...