Word: impromptu
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...main question is what people talk about, and how they approach their subject. Oxford undergraduates are several years younger than the average American who comes with a degree, but they are serious and excellent at impromptu debate. Certainly there is less of the anti-intellectual Fraternity Spirit (drinking, off-color songs, and pack forays for women) that characterizes an appalling proportion of the American university population...
...Davey Moore liked most to boast of his boyhood reputation as the best fist-foot-knee-and-thumb fighter ever produced by Kiefer Junior High School in Springfield. Ohio. Son of a Negro clergyman, Moore was a professional of sorts by the time he was seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and scrambling for coins tossed into the ring. Officially turning pro in 1953, he seemed only a so-so boxer until 1957, when he won 14 straight fights and the featherweight championship...
...marriage. Raised by his mother Nancy in Beverly Hills, Frank Jr. quietly attended local public and private schools, still plans to continue drama studies at the University of Southern California. But once he cuts loose on the songs that Daddy taught him, history may well repeat itself. During an impromptu public appearance at Disneyland last summer, one youngish matron came up to the bandstand and purred: "That was almost like the Paramount Theater...
...increased percentage of church participants." The Rev. Dr. Bryant Kirkland of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church observes that there is a "marked evidence of personal religious commitment among our new membership." This commitment shows up in countless ways-in more lay interest in theological study classes, in impromptu Bible study cells set up in private homes, in parishioners' demands for better sermons and more dignified worship, in cutting down social activities in churches. Says the Rev. Andrew Greeley, study director of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago: "Every indication I get gives...
...raced up to the Wall from the Communist sector of the city. Out swarmed dozens of Russian security men around a familiar portly figure decked out in a black astrakhan cap and grey overcoat. It was Nikita Khrushchev all right, and he promptly proceeded to give one of his impromptu theatrical performances. Grinning broadly, he mugged for photographers, gaily waved a pudgy finger at the barbed wire and steel barrier, then ambled over for a chat with a busload of astonished Italian newsmen. Asking for "someone who speaks English" he jovially pumped the hand of the correspondents' guide...