Word: impromptue
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...drama began Friday afternoon in the unlikely setting of an auto-towing-company yard in a black district that stretches across south central Los Angeles. FBI agents, Los Angeles policemen and deputy sheriffs converged on the spot, which was turned into an impromptu central command and briefing post. They were joined by squads of newsmen who had picked up the same tip: the S.L.A. was hiding in the area...
...W.F.L. Keating took his mind off his lunch for a moment and calculated the value of his prize clients. He scribbled figures totaling $2.7 million on his napkin and held it up for his colleague to see. "You're kidding!" was the response. Keating pocketed his impromptu price tag and put the "ridiculous idea" out of mind...
Sir/When T.S. Eliot [March 11] arrived on the Abbot Academy campus for an impromptu talk in 1952, the rumor of the day was that he was a "very special" friend of Miss Emily Hale, our dramatics teacher. Since rumors are practically a national pastime at most boarding schools, imagine my surprise when you carried a picture of Emily Hale as a lovely young woman and indeed a very special friend of Eliot...
Meeting other Western Hemisphere foreign ministers in Mexico City recently, the Secretary of State was so sought-after by his Latin American counterparts that they even pursued him to the men's room to carry out impromptu discussions. "Kissinger y Rabasa conferencian en el W.C.," headlined Mexico City's Ovaciones, after one such session involving Kissinger and Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa...
Students generally agree. "With the pressures of spring finals," said a University of Tennessee coed, "it's a good chance to do an impromptu belly dance or striptease. Once you're in the swing of things, you forget that you are nude...