Word: makeshift
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Both solutions are makeshift, and at least one of them is potentially corrupt. If the salaries of Congressmen and other public servants rose to a point commensurate with the importance of their work, essentially honest men like Nixon would need no angels...
...garden between the Blair house and the four-story brick home of his 93-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Louise de Koven Bowen. She wouldn't be disturbed; she was up at the family house near Waukegan. In the garden the Blair butler, Herman, set up a makeshift bar and plugged in a portable radio for the reporters...
Hurry-Up Job. The bomber started out 3½ years ago as a makeshift project. Five Boeing engineers had gone to Wright Field to show the Air Force plans for an intercontinental turbo-prop bomber on which Boeing had been working for two years. But the Air Force turned it down, said it wanted a long-range, all-jet bomber. The engineers holed up in a hotel room for two days and, using a bureau top as a drawing board and balsa wood from model airplane kits, put together a rough model of the kind of jet bomber Boeing could...
...radios" were crystal sets fashioned from bits of wire, smuggled crystals and makeshift diaphragms. Though primitive, the sets easily picked up broadcasts from a nearby transmitter tower of Manhattan's station...
...McThing has the great fault of bohemia-the mussed look, the makeshift furnishings, the "interesting" but rather amateurish dinner that arrives several hours late. For, barring some salted nuts, it is not till Mrs. McThing is more than half over that any food for laughter begins to appear...