Word: impromptu
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...impossible to ask him [Acheson] or any other nominee precisely what policies he will pursue, because he or any other nominee will pursue whatever policies are directed by the President. Only the President himself can answer the question, and the answer may sometimes be quite impromptu and unpredictable. We cannot control foreign policy through our action on this or any other nominee. I want to make that plain. Therefore, it should be made wholly obvious that we do not underwrite the results, in terms of foreign policy, which will flow from our confirmation of this or any other nominee...
...major programs, such as the North Atlantic alliance and additional Marshall Plan funds, for which Vandenberg had led the fight, he could again be expected to help out. But Harry Truman could not expect Vandenberg to support any "impromptu and unpredictable" foreign policy the President might embark...
...late Tenor Enrico Caruso and the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin turned up in a spot where U.S. opera lovers could get a look at it-the lounge of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. In 1912 fast-painting Portraitist Tade Styka had herded the three together, daubed away between impromptu arias, somehow managed to catch the highstrung trio in a portrait that all but played its own temperamental mood music...
...impromptu bar, three foghorns four bells, 20 girls from local educational institutions, and a ten-mile ride in a charted MTA streetcar livened up the twilight hours for the tuxedoed thrill seekers...
...practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost it moving from Washington to Topeka after...