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When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as “gun,” perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room.
Sharing of contaminated injecting equipment in border towns is widespread, in part because of the makeshift arrangements in which the cross-border injecting takes place.
Assigned after some weeks to a few hours per week in the makeshift dental clinic in the prison revier or hospital, I took to busying myself during the great gaps of empty time by searching out and putting on paper British army-language specials, like mucker `partner,' scoff `overeat,' fluff `girl,' skilly `meal,' griff `rumor,' duff `dessert.
The desperate, makeshift effort to accommodate them pushed back the city’s boundaries and accounts for the oldest of the suburban eyesores in the capital.
Their makeshift homes, known in Turkish as gecekondu (“built by night”), take advantage of an old Ottoman law that protects a house whose roof has been built during the hours of darkness.