Word: makeshift
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...sophomore guard duo of Dave Rogers and Jonas Honick will be the stabilizing constant in an otherwise makeshift Crimson lineup...
...short history, the event has never been open or competitive. Only Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge--certainly not the ancient entries--have been invited to race the Cairo police and two Egyptian university crews. Harvard, with a makeshift crew, has always won. Coach Harry Parker recently admitted, "It's difficult to take the racing too seriously. We have to use borrowed boats and, because it is during the winter, there is no extensive preparation...
...building in Bet She'an, killing four of its inhabitants and wounding 19 more (including eight children). The guerrillas themselves were killed by counterattacking paratroopers a short time later in a pitched battle in which the terrorists tried to use a children's toy box as a makeshift barricade...
...Everything is in an absolute shambles," said Stellios Garanis, head of the Cyprus Employers Federation. Approximately one-third of the Greek population-about 180,000 people-had fled their homes in terror of the advancing Turks and congregated in makeshift refugee camps in the Greek-controlled part of the island south of a line extending from Lefka through Nicosia to Famagusta. Twenty thousand Cypriot Turks -about one-sixth of the native Turkish population-sought similar haven with the Turkish army in the northern sector. Most refugees, both Greek and Turk, had left their homes with little more than the clothes...
Pamplona's hotels had been reserved far in advance, so that I had little choice but to join the crowd sleeping in the park located next to the bullring. I unrolled my sleeping bag and arranged my sweater into a makeshift pillow. I took off my pants, which contained my wallet, passport, traveller's checks, and train pass, and put them into my knapsack, which I placed a half-foot from my head. The wine had made my head heavy, and I was out like a light. Around 4:30 a.m. I awoke with a start and, after, shaking...