Word: impromptue
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...lady with the world's stoutest smile has cheered her customers in sports, counseled them in love, sympathized when they broke up with their girl friends and watched them get married. In return, the Register has picked her as an honorary freshman advisor, the Lampoon cast her in an "impromptu production," and the Hasty Pudding always gave her their best seats...
Only once last week, in an impromptu departure from his 13-page single-spaced text, did Johnson mention the Great Society. He invoked God just once and evoked youthful memories of poverty and the Pedernales not at all. What he did present to the 90th Congress-and a prime-hour TV audience estimated at 65 million-was a pragmatic, sometimes prosaic outline of legislative aims tempered both to the conservative climate of Capitol Hill and the economic realities of a society that is inextricably involved in a costly war abroad while deeply committed to social reform at home...
...character" posters pasted on the city's walls first popped up five months ago as impromptu, crudely lettered marching orders for Mao's rabble-rousing young Red Guards. As China's power struggle has gathered ferocity, handwriting on the wall has developed into the fine art of big character assassination, purge by poster and partisan propagandizing. Every morning, foreign correspondents in Peking eagerly scan the walls for information notably unavailable in the Chinese press itself...
...loudspeakers that, hidden in the uprights, rumble and reverberate like a blighty Wurlitzer. Each of 144 electric eyes paired in opposing scales from high to low along the length of La Machine controls a musical tone. It was possible to pick out Féere Jacques on the gizmo; impromptu boiler-factory blues was a far simpler tune to produce...
...business," he bluntly told KMBC, "and it isn't radio's business." He finally accepted, though, at double his U.P. salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman wanted anything to do with this new electronic beast...