Word: makeshift
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...latrines; most were dank and unventilated at best. Children slept with their parents under blankets left underground for weeks on end. Milk for babies could not be heated if it was brought in. Nightly inspection trips were made by doctors and Red Cross nurses, but medical attention was still makeshift. One shelter doctor, who worked at a children's hospital by day, was responsible for 5,000 men, women and children at night...
...miserable Italians dared not light camp fires at night; some subsisted on raw mule meat. They took refuge as they went in churches and mosques, using them as makeshift forts. Neutral military observers said that if only Britain could send enough planes, the Italian Armies might be swept into the Adriatic before Rome could get set for a new offensive. Fascist reinforcements moving up to Pogradec met their pell-melling comrades on the road out of there, turned and fled with them as Pogradec fell. The same thing happened at Moskopole and it looked as though the first stand General...
...under U. S. and Chinese control they are being used for relief and reconstruction programs for China's war-struck millions. Despite their record enrollments in the new scholastic locations, the Christian colleges have been able to take only one in five of qualified applicants. But even with makeshift equipment and a great lack of books, all are giving full courses. Says Executive Secretary Bettis Austin Garside of the A. B. C. C. C.: "If China needs engineers, she asks Hangchow Christian College for them, and gets them. If China needs trained organizers of cooperatives, she asks the University...
...accused the Nazis of showering germs over London. Instead, disease bar rages were being fired by Londoners at each other in their dank, ill-ventilated, evil-smelling air-raid shelters, where hundreds of thousands huddled together every night - young & old, sick & well, with only makeshift toilet facilities and no chance to perform personal hygiene...
...travel by dog team over wastes of "slob" ice and huge sheets of smooth "whelping ice." Once he drifted out to sea on a pan of ice, had to kill three of his dogs and use their skins for blankets, their leg bones as a staff for a makeshift flag...