Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little younger, you'd have climbed out of bed and rushed into the yard to squish the heavenly mud between your toes and turn your face to the sky." Many a farmer did stand shivering happily in the open; at Brownfield, Texas, the high-school band staged an impromptu parade, and a pretty girl named Kay Kissinger was elected "Miss Drought Breaker...
Last week, from five different countries, 200 energetic contestants traveled to Niagara Falls, N.Y. to try their hands at what is now a worldwide sport. But the badminton they played was a far cry from the impromptu pastime dreamed up by the Duke of Beaufort's friends. And as if to prove that the game is not the private property of English gentlemen any more, Eddie Choong, 23, a cat-quick little (5 ft. 4 in.) Malayan, bounded away with the American Badminton Association's singles championship...
...tired. His title already lost on points, Carter waded in, shrugged off DeMarco's punches and tried doggedly for a knockout. All he could do was salvage a couple of rounds. The Brooklyn billygoat put on an impromptu acrobatic act for photographers when the announcer named him the new lightweight champion of the world...
Bronx-born Soprano .Peters likes it that way. For a brief three months she was married to Met Baritone Robert Merrill, but thinks for the present that marriage and the intensive work of a young career soprano do not mix. Last week, after her impromptu success in Figaro, Soprano Peters went off to a celebrative late supper of spaghetti with clam sauce with her father, her mother and her music teacher...
...toward the basket-all before his feet touched the floor. The ball dropped through without even touching the rim, and the crowd of 13,837 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden broke into cheers. Most of them had come to watch Cousy perform. And for this kind of impromptu razzle-dazzle performance, Cousy makes a top National Basketball Association salary of $20,000 a year...