Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carrying cardboard coffins draped in black, about two dozen people staged an impromptu march in Port-au-Prince last week after a memorial Mass for the more than 50 victims of last month's election-day violence. Suddenly three gunmen, by some accounts dressed in army or police uniforms, began firing into the crowd. The toll: a 25-year-old mourner dead and four seriously wounded...
...University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, no one was smiling. Students clustered around a computer in a lobby to check their investments. More than 150 showed up for an impromptu forum last Tuesday to discuss the effect of the market's uncertainty on careers. "Let's put it this way: I was a future investment banker," says Harry Friedberg, 21, who used the $17,000 he made trading options last year to pay his tuition and room and board. But now, he says, "I'll look harder at marketing." For Neil Donnenfeld, 25, the panic only confirmed a decision last...
...children played games, listened to an impromptu concert by the Krokodiloes, and danced to the Harvard songs and show tunes of the Harvard band, said Elisa Fernandez '88, who, with Melissa Bayer '88 and Margaret Watt '88, co-organized the event. Afterward, the children were shuttled to the Science Center to see a special showing of "Superman...
Inouye, the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, said the President "knew much more" than the White House has admitted, but Reagan said in an impromptu encounter with reporters yesterday he had "no detailed information" about the private network...
University workers yesterday foiled the plan by entering the building through a system of underground tunnels, but afterwards students confronted the university regents en route to a regularly scheduled meeting and coerced them into holding an impromptu open forum...