Word: makeshift
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...seven U.S. soldier-executioners it was a grim assignment. First they went to a makeshift gallows, built in an elevator shaft, and practiced with a sandbag dummy. Then, shortly after midnight one night, they carried out the verdict...
What the war had done to 40 years of patient educational progress was plain to see in battered Manila. Only 20 of the 48 big elementary schools could open. Their makeshift quarters accommodated only a third of the prewar enrollment (112,000). Three of the city's four high schools, which normally served 26,000 students, were hard put to it to take in 4,000. In two of them, students found refugee squatters who refused to budge...
...Corporation for action, it is expected that the report will recommend the building of an Activities Center to house all Harvard organizations which need facilities. The lack of such facilities will be even more acute in the fall, following the razing this summer of Shepherd Hall, makeshift headquarters for several organizations in the past...
...unfailing topic of conversation everywhere was the continued food scarcity. No one was starving, or even close to it. Yet makeshift meals were the order of the day. Even spaghetti was hard to get. In a Manhattan restaurant (Schrafft's) the dinner menu one night offered a choice of two vegetable plates...
...undoubtedly had good reason to seek haven in the British Legation, where he prudently remained last week. But critical British and U.S. diplomats had to admit that General Radescu was at best an honest weakling. They similarly had to face the fact that the Groza program, fashioned by a makeshift minority, nevertheless fitted the majority's desire for land and other reforms. In Rumania, as in Finland, conspiracy would not be enough to fulfill Russian aims. Moscow went after what it wanted by offering the Rumanian people a good deal of what they wanted...