Word: impromptue
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...Husband John, lately of New York, got a chance to see their old Washington friends. Outside the club, in a scene reminiscent of a college football movie, George Washington University students cheered the guests on in the friendliest of ways. They were duly rewarded with a five-minute impromptu performance by Bob Hope, on his way into the party. In semi-unison, the students called to Mr. Ford: "Don't come outthrow dollars out the window." Stone, who has boasted of being the fattest cat among Nixon contributors, hosted a banquet for Congressional Medal of Honor winners on Saturday evening...
...Hall. The South side patios on each studio floor provide ideal places in the Spring and Fall to catch a little sun or eat lunch as the sun is intensified by the reflecting by the reflecting glass--may be even in the Winter areas to scrape snow from for impromptu snow-ball fights. The tinted glass of the windows--although at the price of perpetual twilight for the occupants of offices and seminar rooms behind them--creates small paintings out of the views of Mem Hall...
...only an athlete of mythic skill but a knockabout saint whose sort last surfaced in the works of Kerouac and Kesey. In short, he is good, clean wish fulfillment, and author and hero fall in love with him, in the manner of small boys. Santo does an impromptu star turn at a rodeo, befriends and soothes some strung-out hippies, and finally hands over his golden girl friend to Blake...
That possibility, and Castro's own shenanigans, produced some fascinating speculation. For a while, it was the usual hyperenergetic Castro road show, right down to the impromptu games that Fidel would organize whenever his itinerary took him past a basketball court. But when he arrived in Warsaw, an ambulance waited outside the Council of Ministers Building during the official reception. From then on, Castro's main sport was batting down stories that he was suffering from a heart condition. During a tour of a school he protested to newsmen, "I have a heart of steel! Some...
...last Tuesday's Faculty meeting. Following the defeat of the two major sections of the Cavell motion--which would have extended the Staff Tuition Scholarship (STS) program and the present need criteria for one year--exiting Faculty stopped outside University Hall to give picketing Graduate Student Union members an impromptu lecture on the current financial situation...