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Surviving China's Latest Earthquake, but Afraid to Go Home
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YUXI, China — Many residents of this tiny village in the mountainous region of southwest China spent Saturday night in tents and makeshift shelters, too scared to sleep in their flimsy homes after an earthquake killed 188 people early that morning.
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Ancient City Anchors Standoff in Yemen
By LAURA KASINOF
President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his allies fear that Taiz, situated among steep cliffs in central Yemen, could become a makeshift capital for the country’s opposition.
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--Rarely has a cake expressed such sincere feeling. Kanae Kurosawa's topping, created at a baking workshop in a makeshift elementary school building in this tsunami devastated town, was a model of a home and garden.
doss
Chiefly British Slang.
n.
1. Sleep; rest.
2. A crude or makeshift bed.
intr.v.
To go to bed, especially in a crude or makeshift bed; sleep.
The Healing Fields » MULTIMEDIA | Hundreds of uninsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
African Refugees are victims of South African frustration
Racism against foreigners has killed dozens of African immigrants in South
Africa's townships. Many foreigners are now afraid to leave their
makeshift camps.
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Morning Edition, July 8, 2008 - Even on the toughest township streets of South Africa, one could always hear a lively beat and a soulful song. Under apartheid, even music was segregated. That's partly how Deepak Ram — who was raised in one of the townships reserved for people of Indian descent — learned to play a bamboo flute known as the bansuri.
apartheid
noun [U]南非 種族隔離
(in the past in South Africa) a political system in which people of different races are separated:
the long-awaited dismantling (= end) of apartheid
town・ship━━ n. 郡区; 【英史】（教区の）分区, 町区; 【測量】6マイル平方の土地; 〔南アフリカ〕 黒人居住区.Spring Valley Journal
At Wildfire Camp, Logistics and Pop-Tarts
By FERNANDA SANTOS
A makeshift operations center in Arizona, where six wildfires are
burning, keeps 1,160 firefighters spread over three outposts supplied
with showers and steaks.
makeshift Show phonetics
adjective
temporary and of low quality, but used because of a sudden need:
Thousands of refugees are living in makeshift camps.
━━ n., a. 間に合せ（の）, やりくり.
makeshift
Line breaks: make|shift
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪkʃɪft/
adjective- acting as an interim and temporary measure: arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed
More example sentences
- Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given makeshift beds, she said.
- I sat on the end of his makeshift bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
- So makeshift solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
noun
Back to top a temporary substitute or device. More example sentences- We're looking at a matchup between makeshifts on Saturday.
- Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all makeshifts and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
- Such makeshifts were not uncommon among late-romantics.
Ates Temeltas
Deepak Ram is a master of the Indian bamboo flute known as the bansuri.
Wikipedia article "Bansuri".
After the crisis
make-do(māk'dū')
n., pl., -dos, or -do's (-dūz').
A substitute for something unobtainable at the time; a makeshift.
make-do make'-do' adj.
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