Word: makeshift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary (South Pacific) Martin faced water-pinched New York's Dry Friday like a good pressagent. When it came time for her famous onstage shampoo scene (I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair), a fellow actor poured a gallon of club soda into the makeshift shower above her head, and saved a gallon of water...
...borrowed motion picture cameras, a projector, and lights are the extent of the present operating machinery, according to Ward. He added that a new club room in the basement of Leverett House has replaced makeshift meetings in his Lowell House room. The club is redecorating its new headquarters with an original mural by David E. Vanderburgh '50. To complete the room, Ivy is planning a new film library...
...present condition of the Business School is intolerable except as a temporary makeshift. We need funds at once for the construction of buildings to house a School of 1,000 and to develop laboratory facilities...
...plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows of new F-80s and F-61s gleam in the sun, while some of the sleek jets whoosh overhead. In the makeshift hangars, mechanics work tirelessly to repair typhoon damages. American soldiers and airmen have begun to regain faith in themselves and in their mission...
...Colorado, where the water was low in irrigation reservoirs and natural cover sparse, hunters sank steel drums into the barren shores, climbed inside their makeshift blinds and pulled gunny sacks over their heads. Like hunters elsewhere, they were equipped with plenty of shells (No. 6 shot for ducks plus a few No. 2 in case geese came in low); some of them used kazoolike duck calls on which they quacked a bedlam of food calls. Mostly it did little good: the ducks sat on the open water far from the shore line, safely out of shotgun range...