Word: impromptue
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...team seems to have devised a new way to practice. The day before the Yale match last week coach EDIE MACAUSLAND took one look at her hard-working squad and ordered everyone to take the afternoon off from practice and get some sleep. Instead, sophomore LILI PEW organized an impromptu mud sliding practice, with several team members joining her in headlong slides in the lakes of mud and rain water on the practice field. "we walked into the Field House when we were all done, coated with mud, and Chet in the equipment room took one look...
...drinks to the drivers, some of whom took off their shirts to bask in the August sun. Organizers from the Solidarity labor union handed out leaflets, and comedians entertained the growing crowd. Using a sound system borrowed from a jazz club, Solidarity leaders turned a flatbed truck into an impromptu stage, from which they denounced the government's failure to remedy the food situation...
Having tried to kill himself twice, Farmer awakens from heavy sedation to find that his Malibu beach house has become the setting for an impromptu orgy--an epiphany for him. Farmer realizes that his film can only succeed as soft core porn. "We give them romance," he shouts, "when they want sado-masochism...
...though not a lot, were hippies, for lack of a better term. Harvard Square may be one of the few places where street people remain, where they even seem to be on the increase. More raggedy clothes, more sitting on the benches on Cambridge Common all afternoon, more dancing impromptu jigs around musicians than in recent years. Harvard Square and the community it supports just may be coming back...
...clanging of garbage can lids announced the news of Sands' death, gangs of Catholic youths once again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that city; a Belfast policeman was shot to death. Another youth died during a riot-caused auto crash. The violence...