Word: impromptu
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Hoping to finish selecting the general staff of his Administration before he took off for Korea, Dwight Eisenhower spent long hours last week matching men and jobs. He talked it over with most of the candidates himself, conferred frequently with an impromptu personnel selection board headed by Herbert Brownell, who is to be Ike's Attorney General. Out of their deliberations came a dozen more appointments, which underscored the whole character of Ike's team: internationally minded and progressive in foreign affairs, middle-of-the-road to conservative on domestic issues, with a heavy leavening of businessmen...
...might be the goat of the game. A Sears fumble on his own 30-yd. line set up the first scoring play for U.C.L.A.'s Bruins: a 22-yd. field goal. But early in the second period Sears put his team back into the lead with an impromptu play that brought the crowd roaring to its feet. Running interference for teammate Al Carmichael, Sears saw his teammate stopped after a ten-yard gain, yelled for a lateral, gathered the toss in and outraced the off-balance Bruins on a 60-yd. touchdown jaunt...
...Player. Backs to the wall on their own 18-yd. line following the second-half kickoff, Sears & Co. (he plays both offense and defense) held fast, then broke the game open with another dazzling and impromptu burst. This time, Sears was a bystander as Defensive Tackle Elmer Willhoite intercepted a Cameron pass and chugged his beefy, 210-lb. frame down the sideline for 72 yards. For the next three downs the U.C.L.A. line held firm. On fourth down, with four yards to go for the touchdown, it was all up to Jimmy Sears...
According to William T. Soule '53, head cheerleader, the Band will not stop off at John Harvard's statute. In 1950, an impromptu rally began when the Band stopped in front of the status on its way over to the steps of Widener...
...orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu student prayer meetings. In her senior year, Edna almost lost the right to sit with her class on commencement day; she had slipped away from college for too many overnight stays. But "the class made such a fuss" that the authorities let her don cap & gown with the rest...