Word: impromptu
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Last week, from five different countries, 200 energetic contestants traveled to Niagara Falls, N.Y. to try their hands at what is now a worldwide sport. But the badminton they played was a far cry from the impromptu pastime dreamed up by the Duke of Beaufort's friends. And as if to prove that the game is not the private property of English gentlemen any more, Eddie Choong, 23, a cat-quick little (5 ft. 4 in.) Malayan, bounded away with the American Badminton Association's singles championship...
...tired. His title already lost on points, Carter waded in, shrugged off DeMarco's punches and tried doggedly for a knockout. All he could do was salvage a couple of rounds. The Brooklyn billygoat put on an impromptu acrobatic act for photographers when the announcer named him the new lightweight champion of the world...
Bronx-born Soprano .Peters likes it that way. For a brief three months she was married to Met Baritone Robert Merrill, but thinks for the present that marriage and the intensive work of a young career soprano do not mix. Last week, after her impromptu success in Figaro, Soprano Peters went off to a celebrative late supper of spaghetti with clam sauce with her father, her mother and her music teacher...
Each tune, e.g., The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, began with a fast, straightforward version of the melody, then, after a few' bars, swung into Peterson's impromptu variations - interlaced arabesques, rhythmical counterpoints, stream-of-consciousness insertions from other tunes-then back to the original melody. Throughout, Pianist Peterson accompanied himself with his own scat-singing, in the pauses mopped his sweating brow with his handkerchief. Throughout, for all his jet-propelled tempos, his fingers frisked the keys with the precision of a hell-bent Horowitz...
...toward the basket-all before his feet touched the floor. The ball dropped through without even touching the rim, and the crowd of 13,837 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden broke into cheers. Most of them had come to watch Cousy perform. And for this kind of impromptu razzle-dazzle performance, Cousy makes a top National Basketball Association salary of $20,000 a year...