Word: makeshift
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...rebels released everyone except for Howes and Houn. Both men were killed a few days later on the orders of the ruthless Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok. It took two years for British detectives to positively confirm that Howes had been executed and his body cremated on a makeshift pyre of wood and gasoline...
...take care of them. By virtue of the fact that nobody else is going to do it, most police departments know that they're going to have them in their custody so they now train police in how to deal with the mentally ill. But it's all makeshift compared with what was intended when the Kennedy commitment was made way back yonder when he said let's open up these dungeons, where we had the mentally ill housed like beasts, and let the country build local facilities to treat them. America still hasn't faced...
...husband and mother-in-law were concerned, but the local doctor was far away, and expensive, so they waited. When Harakatmo was still bleeding the next morning, they sent a horseman to fetch a village health worker, but Harakatmo's bleeding continued. Panicked, her husband strapped her to a makeshift stretcher and carried her down the steep track from their home until he found a police truck to take them to a clinic several miles away. The doctor there urged the family to rush Harakatmo to Badakhshan's only hospital, in Faizabad, the provincial capital. Harakatmo's husband hired...
...thousands of men across the border to join Afghans in fighting the Soviets. The Pakistani military used religious schools in the borderland to train and equip Afghan mujahedin and to heal them when they returned. More than 3 million Afghan refugees took shelter in Pakistan's cities and in makeshift camps. But after the Soviets withdrew in 1989, the U.S. lost interest in the region. Afghanistan's war of liberation turned into a civil war, and the Pakistani government--led by Bhutto and her political rival Nawaz Sharif, who alternated in power--backed the Taliban, student warriors committed...
...While the Federal Emergency Management Agency has pledged to eventually pay for some evacuees' temporary housing, many folks cannot afford the up-front-costs of hotels and fuel, much less food. It hasn't helped matters that many of the evacuees encountered overcrowded, dirty makeshift shelters only a week ago. Nevertheless, many Louisiana residents haven't been taking chances. "You can't find a hotel room in Hattiesburg - people booked early," observed Gwen James, a realtor in that south-central Mississippi city, which has become kind of hotspot for evacuees partly because it lies far inland, along Interstate 59. Indeed...