Word: impromptu
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About 25 female students shared their personal experiences as victims of rape and sexual harassment, giving impromptu speeches to the assembly...
...health spas and perusing telegrams, including one he received from an Austrian animal-rights group urging him to protect the "flora and fauna" of Alaska -- after he fulfills his campaign promise to reclaim the 49th U.S. state for Mother Russia. But then he felt compelled to stage an impromptu press conference, at which he "revealed" that Russia's military possesses something called an "Elipton," a weapon of mass destruction more powerful than a nuclear weapon. Asked what in the world his boss could be referring to, Zhirinovsky's top deputy back in Moscow could only stammer: "Elipton . . . Um, well...
Hall and Stillman discovered this, to their dismay, in the glare of publicity. At an impromptu press conference the evening the story broke, and in subsequent appearances on Nightline, Good Morning America and Larry King Live, the bewildered scientists tried to keep the discussion focused on the facts of their experiment: that the embryos were defective, that they were never implanted, and that they could never have grown into living humans. Instead they had to field questions from callers like the one who wondered if their technique could be used to put a lion's head on a horse...
...whether they played hits from the '70s, '80s or '90s, they still had the same power and compulsive drive that defines Aerosmith. In the beginning of the set, the group alternately launched into "Back in the Saddle," "Cryin" and "Love in an Elevator," all sounding as fresh as an impromptu jam session...
After word of the secret agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. reached the sun-seared slums of the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Palestinians streamed out of the teeming Shati refugee camp. They hung their red, black, white and green national flag on an impromptu stage and danced to the music of a small folk band. Suddenly a column of 200 toughs from the hard-line Islamic organization Hamas waded into the celebration, swinging chains and clubs. The melee wrecked the stage, the chairs, even the Palestinian flag, and injured at least 15 people...