Word: impromptu
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...broadcasts from space became favorite fare on Moscow television. Volkov, the only member of the crew who had previously made a space trip (aboard Soyuz 7, in 1969), was an idol of teen-age Russian girls because of his rugged good looks. Russian TV viewers also watched an impromptu birthday party staged for Patsayev, who turned 38 during the flight. Instead of pouring the customary vodka, his comrades toasted him with tubes of prune paste. Yet as the mission continued uneventfully day after day-first past the American endurance mark of 13 days set by Gemini 7 in 1965, then...
...North America's tallest mountain, the climbers tackled the hazardous job of smashing and burning junk and backpacking as much as they could down the trail. In all, they took 380 pounds of litter to a camp at the 7,400-ft. level. Despite their good intentions, the impromptu collection barely made a dent in what is probably the earth's highest, unlikeliest garbage dump...
...Harvard students subpoenaed were Laszlo Pasztor '73, co-chairman of the Students for a Just Peace and an organizer of the Counter Teach-In; Richard Zorza '71, who made a short, impromptu speech during the Teach-In; and Peter W. Galbraith...
...frequently unexpected by those who took part in it, even by its leaders. Afterwards the act has to be legitimized by being incorporated into the demands; the domands must project the image backwards, so that, whatever the violence was about, it is part of a movement and not an impromptu...
Edwin Land's speech was not obstructed, nor was it threatened; it was cancelled by a group of Physics professors who wished to spare Land a verbal confrontation on Polaroid in South Africa. About 60 protesters had gathered at an impromptu meeting which Weinrub chaired, and they had voted to approach Land before his scheduled talk on colorvision. At an earlier meeting of scientists in New York, Land had been publicly questioned for the first time on his company's business activity in South Africa, and he had been badly upset by the experience. The professors-several of them...