Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon himself looked suntanned and genial, and showed his extreme polish in impromptu speeches at the airport and en route to the Statler. His addresses to the local dinner and to the nation over closed-circuit TV were hard-hitting and effective; he seems to have refined most of the corn out of his talks, at least in Boston. In general, the impression was strong that the Republicans are not dead in Massachusetts...
Nikita Khrushchev's violent weekend tirade may have saved the United States from an embarrassing diplomatic situation, Hans Morgenthau, visiting professor of Government, said yesterday. The Soviet premier's tactics have lightened the pressure on President Eisenhower to agree to an impromptu summit, he declared...
...stand, Nixon is relaxed and meticulous. He is more practiced than Kennedy at endorsing all the local politicians, quick to freshen up his text with an impromptu reference (a Democratic campaign billboard in Pennsylvania last week caught his eye and gave him a handy introduction to a speech). Among the throngs of greeters (ably abetted by his constant companion, Pat Nixon), he is friendly and easy, shaking as many hands as are offered, stopping to chat frequently. Old folks, invalids and children get special attention. Nixon is always dignified and cool-he has never been caught in a really embarrassing...
...performance was as unpredictable as his audiences. Often, when his political antennae sensed the mood of his listeners, he threw away his carefully prepared texts (to the despair of such highcaliber, hard-working speechwriters as Dick Goodwin, Ted Sorensen and John Bartlow Martin) and launched into impromptu speeches with an eloquence and fervor that reminded middle-aged listeners of the young F.D.R., and touched off wild ovations. Again, he plodded through his speeches as unenthusiastically as his listeners responded to them. Under the direction of Voice Coach Blair McClosky, the Kennedy voice was usually well modulated, right from the diaphragm...
Inside the village U.S. girls eased weary legs by dipping them into churning washing machines for impromptu whirlpool therapy, astonished cooks by devouring such mixtures as hamburgers, spaghetti, marmalade and tomato juice. U.S. girl gymnasts captivated their Italian hosts by persuading their bus driver to take them to a beach instead of to a practice session amid the dusty. 1,700-year-old ruins of the Baths of Caracalla...