Word: off-the-cuff
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Katzenbach devoted the opening moments of his talk to an off-the-cuff discussion of America's present position in the missile program race. "We're behind because of our own stupidity, our own narrow-mindedness, our own close-fisted-ness," he charged...
Eisenhower made a special plea for his foreign aid policy in an off-the-cuff speech to the National Council of the League of Women Voters...
...want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts by way of off-the-cuff press-conference remarks, the President hedged. But behind a noncommital answer lay a surprising...
...hour-long shower of off-the-cuff eloquence, mercurial President Sukarno blamed everything on the existence of opposition parties. "Many opposition leaders oppose the government just for the sake of opposition," complained Sukarno. "Every Cabinet has faced this. No Cabinet has been able to survive long because of the continuing crisis ... I won't say Western democracy is bad. It is simply not suitable for Indonesia...
...think everyone thinks about the Houses," was the off-the-cuff reply...