Word: impromptue
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...wrote an avid amateur jazz musician. Paul Smith, in a Manhattan jazz concert program note a month ago. Last week Manhattanites had their fourth chance of the season to hear jazz-authentic, impromptu jazz-in the plush seats of Town Hall...
...much easier to reach Newell now than at anytime. You merely take the shortest route and venture across the the Charles, which is shorter in yardage, but it is questionable whether the impromptu hockey game which rage over its frozen surface are less of a hazard to navigation than the traffic over the Andreson bridge...
...guerrillas, Croats, Slovenes, Jews, Bulgarian and Austrian deserters, has often been called a guerrilla force. It usually fights in small, separated groups like guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
...Rome, Newscaster Mario Appelius was the first of his profession to talk back to a radio heckler. His program was interrupted by a voice exclaiming: "You are an Italian ass." Signor Appelius riposted: "That's better than being a British citizen." This led to an impromptu exchange of high-school wit. Later in the week, when the heckler's voice was faint, Signor Appelius tried for the large effect by crying: "Speak louder, ghost! No ghost will save England...
Every Freshman speaks for several minutes into one of the microphones which Professor Packard has had installed in Holden Chapel. Part of the talk is read from a prepared sheet, and the rest is delivered impromptu about summer experiences, political convictions, or etc., to test the student's facility in phrasing his thoughts...