Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoons when interest in the case has waned, and the flies buzz and the guards doze in the heat, that Charles Sobhraj will make his move." That prediction, made in 1979 in a best-selling book, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, became reality last week. During an impromptu "birthday party" with his jailers at the Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi, Sobhraj plied seven officials and guards with drugged sweets, tied them up, then sped away in a waiting car with six fellow inmates...
Plans are being made to provide each UTEP graduate that goes on to teach with a picture phone so that impromptu teaching seminars can be held periodically...
Still, President Reagan appeared to welcome the Soviet proposal, sounding even a bit more optimistic than some of his advisers. "Everything they are saying represents a change in their position," the President declared expansively to reporters at an impromptu press conference held in a soap factory near Cincinnati, where he had flown last week as part of his lonely crusade on behalf of tax reform. The President, in fact, has seemed somewhat more detached than usual from the details of foreign policy while making repeated forays on behalf of a tax plan most people appear to have forgotten. He also...
...major speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and an interview with TIME, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stressed that Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists...
Elation soon gave way to a more somber spirit. Realizing that they were looking at the scene of one of history's great tragedies, Ballard organized an impromptu memorial service for the dead. Said he: "To finally put those souls to rest was a very nice feeling...