Word: impromptue
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rusk bluntly set the record straight: "At no time has Hanoi indicated publicly or privately that it will refrain from taking military advantage of any cessation of the bombing. Nor has it shown any interest in preliminary negotiations to arrange a general cease-fire." Lyndon Johnson added at an impromptu press conference at the White House that Hanoi is no more ready "to negotiate today than it was a year ago, two years ago or three years ago," and the Communists' attacks throughout South Viet Nam proved...
...green 3.8 Jaguar sedan, hobnobbing with such Hollywood types as Edward G. Robinson and Director Vincente Minnelli, fencing with Film Composer Bronislau Kaper ("Not much control," says Kaper, "but great imagination and aggressiveness"), digging jazz at Drummer Shelly Manne's club, singing all the parts in impromptu living-room opera performances with such musical friends as Ivry Gitlis and Pianist Daniel
...Johnson will be the ebullient, inexhaustible, larger-than-life campaigner of old, and considerably harder to defeat than a lot of people now figure. During one dizzying 24-hour period last week, he offered a preview of what that campaign may be like-delivering three separate speeches, holding an impromptu press conference, alternately scolding and cajoling his critics, spinning out visions of the kind of nation he wants to help build, and cracking joke after joke...
...cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat off Viet Nam that really upset the junior officers...
...civilian casualites in North Viet Nam caused by American bombing, but pointed out that Communist terrorism in the South has taken an infinitely greater toll of civilian lives. Michigan's George Romney once again proposed that all of Southeast Asia be "neutralized" and the war "defused." At an impromptu news conference, the President once again affirmed his belief in the right to dissent, but suggested that the dissenters were only playing into the hands of Red propagandists. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy once again threatened to run as a "peace candidate" unless Johnson ended...