Word: impromptu
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Late Friday evening, shortly after two rabbis on the TWA jet had conducted an impromptu two-minute service, the commandos started to evacuate the aircraft. By midday Saturday, they had transported the remaining women and children by cars and trucks into Amman. Another 141 passengers, including all men aboard the three jets and ten Jewish and Israeli women (some with dual citizenship), were taken to another?and unannounced?location. After the two caravans departed, the Front's demolition experts did their work, and the three shiny jets were reduced to smoking rubble...
They made their own sound-laughter, interminable rapping, impromptu guitar-plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became...
...hour after Rogers received Israel's affirmative, President Nixon was awakened and told the good news. President and Secretary of State journeyed together to the San Clemente Inn for an impromptu press conference. "We do not underestimate the difficulties," said Nixon. "It will require moderation, flexibility and a willingness by both sides to accept something less than their maximum positions." But, he added, with a pleased Rogers at his side, "there is now some hope...
Nixon made the remarks during an impromptu press briefing at a law enforcement conference in Denver. He criticized the press, saying that it tends to "glorify and to make heroes out of those who engage in criminal activities...
...really at a watershed of economic policy now," President Nixon told an impromptu news conference last week. His words signaled a spreading conviction in Washington that the Government has at last cooled the economy enough so that the rate of inflation is being reduced. Now there is much sentiment in the Administration for shifting policy to concentrate on reviving business enough to keep unemployment within reasonable bounds. That feeling is widely shared by private economists and by Government policymakers who testified last week before the congressional Joint Economic Committee. They generally agreed that...