Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's relaxed attitude can be attributed, at least in part, to a pre-game impromptu stickball game outside the Princeton Holiday Inn. Using the wrong end of a lacrosse stick, the defense defeated the attack...
Prosterman, saying that "it is not helpful to discuss facts in a crowd situation," slipped out a back door as the protestors staged an impromptu--and more emotional--continuation of the rally...
...summit meeting. Still the Administration did not slam the door on a summit, although the President is clearly not interested in an early meeting. Instead it indicated that Reagan would see Brezhnev, but only after long and thorough consultation with U.S. allies. As the President told reporters at an impromptu press conference, "I have pledged to them that we're not going to act on things like this unilaterally...
...Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas W. McGee, 56, was too impatient to wait for a ladder, so he shinnied ten feet up a pole to reach the halyard and hoist the U.S. flag over the statehouse in Boston. In Mountain Home, Idaho, some 200 townspeople staged an impromptu parade, driving their cars three abreast, headlights on and horns blaring. Patrolman Joseph McDermott coasted his cruiser to the side of a street in Rochester, N.H., fighting back tears. Said he: "I am overjoyed. I feel proud again...
...arms of his weeping wife. His jubilant supporters hustled him out of the courtroom and into a cheering throng of well-wishers, many of whom raised their arms in clenched-fist salutes. From upper-story windows of the courthouse, white civil servants gazed stunned and stony-faced at the impromptu fete...