Word: libbing
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...school group, which meets once a week, presented a combination fashion show, beauty pageant and musical comedy, with slight Old Howard over-tones. (At least there was a runway, making every seat a front row seat.) The girls were extremely nervous and the narrator found herself forced to ad lib when the "sub-deb in the fetching pink chiffon formal," failed to appear. During this portion of the program, a paid pianist ground away relentlessly, providing suitably nondescript background music...
Though he is a teacher at heart, Don Herbert hates the dry stuffiness of a classroom as much as any truant schoolboy. On Mr. Wizard, his popular science show for kids (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he uses brief, ad lib comment instead of hectoring lectures, everyday objects like balloons and tumblers instead of beakers and fractionating columns, and he would rather conduct his experiments with a potato or a spinning top than with test tubes and Bunsen burners...
...supposed to let one strike go by and hit the next pitch into the left field seats. But Bob Kuzava failed to take the role of Ralph Branca seriously. His first pitch was a ball, and Bob Thomson couldn't find his place. With appalling inability to ad lib, Thomson lifted a fly to left and Dark scored, but it wasn't the same thing...
...just once during the week did his temper get the best of him in public. Addressing the Highway Safety Conference, he deplored the high casualty rate on U.S. highways, then departed from his prepared speech for an intemperate ad lib. Said he: "We have been attempting to stop an act of aggression in Korea for the last year. The total casualties for the whole operation have been less than 80,000 . . . and that means every kind of death and injury that could take place in that operation. That is on the mind and tongue of every citizen. But right here...
...Superintendent Link Conboy and his family had to make the best of it. And the best of it, as the superintendent saw it, was daughter Gate's romance with the young insurance salesman who had come down from Indianapolis to spend the holidays with the Conboy family. Wife Lib made popcorn balls, daughter Cate decked out the dining room with red-and-green streamers and piled pine cones and cedar boughs in the middle of the table. "Your beau's going to think you've emptied the woodbox on the table," Lib objected. Cate knew better...