Word: impromptue
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...affability of Ronald Reagan as a man, Washington journalists consider his a closed presidency. Aides have repeatedly tightened opportunities for reporters to ask Reagan impromptu questions. Ranking officials sometimes pride themselves on being unhelpful, and-in a futile White House attempt to stem unwanted leaks-for a time all but half a dozen of them were to be barred from talking off the record. Nonetheless, Laurence I. Barrett seems to have established access to the President and his men and to have got them to open...
...their work clothes, willing to do anything to survive. Composer Paul Dessau was a hired hand on a chicken farm; Writer Walter Mehring became a warehouse foreman; Philosopher Heinrich Blucher shoveled chemicals in a factory. In the sassy spirit of Berlin cabarets of the 1920s, they devised impromptu dictionaries of slang, with emphasis on "dough" and "bread." Twelve-tone Composer Arnold Schoenberg dispensed to fellow exiles his one-note advice for social success: When in doubt, smile...
...into Radcliffe, where I had to study too hard to stay in, and even though I was class of '72 and got to partake of the thrilling occupation of Widener Library and to practice fellatio impromptu between the Conrad and Cooper stacks, I felt that the sixties had passed me by before I'd got started...
...social event of the year for Wisconsin fans, and it's celebrated with some urgency as there's no guarantee that the Badgers will make the trip every year. One way of celebrating was to get the fans and the band in the same place whenever possible for impromptu pep rallies--at post-game parties Thursday and Friday nights and for an hour before the game at the team hotel Saturday...
What remains firmly fixed in memory is my trek from the Milan train station to my lodgings. Corso Venetzia at 3 a.m. that night was jammed with traffic, jammed with celebrants creating an enormous din. I passed a few street corners where three or four piece bands were staging impromptu jam sessions, complete with electric guitars connected to amplifiers...