Word: makeshift
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...When he climbed out he saw why: the street was already littered with bodies that had fallen from the sky. The fire fighters entered the lobby of 1 World Trade through blown-out windows and waited for their orders from senior officers at a desk that served as a makeshift command center...
...fact, just a few blocks away. Having raced to the scene at the first news of the attacks, Giuliani was nearly buried alive. In the hours that followed, he had to lock parts of the city down and break others open, create a makeshift command center and a temporary morgue, find a million pairs of gloves and dust masks and respirators, throw up protections against another attack, tame the mobs that might go looking for vengeance and somehow persuade the rest of the city that it had not just been fatally shot through the heart...
...Laskar Jihad checkpoint on the road outside Poso. "Do we have a letter of authorization?" he asks, keeping his finger on the trigger guard of his rifle. Although they muster only an antiquated shotgun and a homemade rifle among them, he hangs back from the villagers manning the makeshift wooden hut from which the black flag displaying Laskar's symbol of crossed scimitars droops in the afternoon heat...
...sustained, long-term operations in Palestinian towns and refugee camps carry the risk of a substantial increase in Israeli casualties for limited tactical benefits. After all, the difference between the first intifada and the current one is that there are now tens of thousands of assault rifles, grenades and makeshift mortars in Palestinian hands - which is precisely why disarming the unofficial militias had been a critical element of the Mitchell cease-fire plan...
...throwing everything it has at that network. The agency?s Counter-Terrorism Center, which coordinates the worldwide war out of the ground floor of the Langley headquarters, has ballooned to 800 analysts, technicians and covert operatives. Nearby conference rooms and snack bars have been commandeered for makeshift workstations. Empty pizza boxes, the residue of 24-hour-a-day activity, litter hallways. A financial team is feeding bank transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block al Qaeda?s cash flow. Agency scientists are also fielding anti-terror gizmos like OASIS, a computer that scans thousands...