Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help in the new country's development. He chatted with one of Britain's top emissaries, Lord Privy Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about the forthcoming Ike-Macmillan conference in Bermuda, complimented Britain on her long, mutually profitable role in Ghana. Next day he held an impromptu talk with an American he never had met, Montgomery, Ala.'s bus-boycott leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18), invited King to confer with him in Washington...
Harvey Pressman of Brandeis University won the impromptu speaking contest. Richard Roberts of Kentucky was ranked the top individual debater in the tournament...
...final four debate rounds will be held in the Lamont Forum Room at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. this morning and at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. They will be followed by the impromptu semi-finals...
...winning debate team will receive the John Quincy Adams Debate Trophy in award ceremonies at 8 p.m. tonight. Awards will also be presented to the best impromptu speaker, and to the two highest-scoring debaters and the second place debate team...
...impromptu speaking contest is included in tournament activities. Speakers are given five minutes to prepare speeches on an assigned topic of current interest...