Word: impromptue
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...West Wing, where either Ron Ziegler or Gerald Warren - often as much as an hour behind schedule - mounts a platform, stands behind a lectern, makes the daily announcements and accepts questions." Says Fischer: "Johnson used to roam frequently around the West Wing, call reporters into his office for impromptu talks, and hold 'man-in-motion' press conferences as he strode around the White House lawn. Nixon, on the other hand, allows 'photo opportunities' only a few times a week and is more secluded than his predecessors...
...home with the predominantly snotty, upper class, chauvinist audience, and scores minor points in his remarks by way of snide and generally tasteless humor. Ms. Greer appears tight-lipped and fumbling at the outset, only the kid-gloved technique for an all-out attack which represents the finese impromptu defense of a worthy, cause I have ever seen. It is to the credit of the stodgy debaters that they eventually see the light and award the clear victory to the finer combatant. Right on. Channel 44. 11:30 p.m.--An Affair to Remember. Or forget, depending on your perspective. This...
...Scarcity. With much evidence, the White House holds that though the beef shortage is real enough in the stores and packing houses, it is merely a form of impromptu theatrics staged by the cattlemen to get the freeze lifted. Though meat is in tight supply in many parts of the world, there is no genuine scarcity of beef on the hoof in this nation. The U.S. now has 2% more cattle on feed and 6% more breeding cows than at this time last year. Ranchers and feed-lot operators can collect alltime high prices for their animals but are holding...
...California administrators had finally held a mirror to the nostrils of expiring rebelliousness and detected no life there. No organized public life, at any rate. Said Shotwell: "The draft is gone, the war is more or less over, and the threat of interruption of life has ended." The passionate, impromptu politics of the '60s has long since closed down, and may have to await renewal until Jane Fonda's and Tom Hayden's new baby comes...
...next day was more of the same -more delays, more downpours, another frustrating postponement. Fans meandered about in the mud, bored and, in some cases, broke. The drivers passed the time tossing Frisbees in Gasoline Alley, starting impromptu soccer games and playing gin rummy...