Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annoyance was the rumor that her whole Spanish holiday was only a disguised tryst with widower Antonio Garrigues, father of eight and a friend of the Kennedy family ever since Joe Jr. visited Madrid during the Civil War. As the rumors mounted, Angie Duke decided to call an impromptu conference on Jackie's behalf, saying: "I want to make it crystal-clear and completely understood that there is no basis in fact in rumors of an engagement...
...week, Johnson showed the old hunkered-down, lapel-tugging virtuosity, his hands flying, his words pulsing, his fists mashing the air for emphasis. At an unexpected and impromptu press conference after a Cabinet room ceremony, he twitted the press for predicting trouble over a supplemental bill that had just passed easily: "That was a great issue, and you all had your backgrounders up on the future fall of the Johnson Administration. I sat trembling, waiting for the announcement of that roll call...
...President would name one man to replace Bundy in the well-publicized position of Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Last week the President made it clear that he has no intention of offering Bundy's spotlight to any one man. At what he called a "regular, impromptu, unannounced, hurried-up press conference," he announced the appointment of two new White House aides...
...long day's courtship moves from the beach to an impromptu airplane excursion to the Copenhagen zoo, then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner...
Between klong calling and baby bussing, Humphrey worked hard and happily at the serious business of representing his Government on the impromptu, nine-nation, 41,000-mile tour that Lyndon Johnson decreed as a fitting epilogue to the strategy conference in Hawaii. The Vice President carried it off with verve and style...