Then he had left with a hastily concocted story about an urgent appointment.

They were given, in the main, hastily concocted "classified" fictions relative to drug interdiction.

It was an amateurish alibi - one that had been hastily concocted.

Parents, many of them unable to return to their homes since the disaster struck, reacted to the hastily concocted plans with both relief and trepidation.

All that remained was for him to send the final command, but already he was detecting trouble with his hastily concocted plan.

She closed her eyes and tried to see her hastily concocted plan clearly.

If New York's experience is any lesson, budget experts say, it is that programs hastily concocted during budget crises will probably not fare well.

The Mayor has come up with a hastily concocted charter reform item that would bump off any other referendum.

There followed a lengthy and shabby propaganda statement obviously hastily concocted by Hitler and Ribbentrop during the intervening two hours.

A hastily concocted and almost certainly unconstitutional ban on the practice of lobbying is not a solution to influence-peddling in New York City.