Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruise ship nosed its way through the Isles of Greece, stopping daily to give the tourists a chance to see the sights by bus or on muleback, royal teen-agers hacked around like any other kids, squirting each other with pop, staging impromptu Olympic games in ancient stadia and rewarding winners with stolen kisses. In the evening there were movies, and sometimes all hands joined to practice the mambo and the rumba, with Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch...
Padilla lost the election, of course. That night Lacson's uniformed bully boys picked him up and took him on an impromptu road show. They toured from town to town beating and torturing Padilla, displaying him in a public square while one of the boys announced: "Here is what happens to people who oppose us." Once Padilla saw his mother and managed to mumble: "Communicate Magsaysay." But when Magsaysay reached Negros Occidental, he found Padilla's body, broken and dripping blood onto a police bench with 14 bullets in the back. Lacson smiled easily: "Shot dead...
That spot of brilliance seemed to dim the fresh lake and vermilion on the adjoining Waterloo Bridge. Constable snorted to a friend: "Turner has been here and fired a gun!" Two days later, Turner deftly turned the impromptu daub into a red buoy that can still be seen floating on his grey...
When the bars shut down for the afternoon, only a few celebrants tested the drizzle for softball. Impromptu square dancing and jazz sessions drew the talents of 1929 and its offspring until the Harvard Band arrived...
...route, all unknowing, I wonder; one of us spry-eyed, with clean, white lectures and a soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...