Word: off-the-cuff
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...Entirely Himself." The next morning in Washington, Barry dropped in on Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club, delighted the dames with his relaxed off-the-cuff answers to questions...
Connors reported that Bliss had been particularly impressed by the built-in book cases and dressers in some of the newer halls, noting that it was "only an off-the-cuff" visit...
...evidence of emotional immaturity. More seriously, they accuse him of lack of judgment. The principal evidence: an incident of last August, when Merriam, on behalf of a self-exiled Iranian scholar, telephoned a State Department official, surreptitiously tape-recorded the conversation, then played the recording -which included some off-the-cuff remarks by the official about Iran's corruption - to a reporter for a local newspaper. It is specifically for this mistake that the ecclesiastical court will try him. Merriam's critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of press...
...brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption-to a reporter. Merriam apologized for his bad judgment, but the presbytery began to gather charges against...
...controls, both big business and big labor will be under continuous pressure from the White House to conform their price and wage policies to the "public interest"-however that may be denned by the Government at the time. If so, the Administration maybe letting itself in for repeated off-the-cuff rulings that can hardly fail in the long run to prove contradictory, chaotic or ineffectual...