Word: off-the-cuff
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...Famed today mostly for Undergraduate Thomas Brown's off-the-cuff insult: I do not love thee, Doctor Fell The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone 1 know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell...
Next morning, in a snappy tweed sport jacket and slacks, the President attended a plenary session of the conference, where he delivered a meandering, off-the-cuff address, which was at its best when he shared with the governors his strategic theories on Asia (see Foreign Relations). But Ike's effectiveness at Seattle was not in what he said; it was in his hearty salutation and his deep bow of respect to the governors...
...economy-minded critics were afraid he had not cut far enough, and defense-minded critics feared that the results of his cuts might impair U.S. security. But any who thought Dwight Eisenhower had lost his sense of balance between the two logics had not listened to his short, off-the-cuff speech at midweek to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Said he: "These [defense-security] costs are going to be lowered at the earliest possible moment. But they are never going to be lowered beyond that point that you can, with justification, say: 'I shall sleep well tonight because...
...week's end, A.M.A. summoned its house of delegates into special session at Washington's Statler Hotel to give an opinion of the Eisenhower reorganization plan. To reassure A.M.A., Eisenhower and Secretary-to-be Hobby went over to the meeting themselves. In an off-the-cuff speech, the President said he had found, in the past few years, that "I have certain philosophical bonds with doctors. I don't like the word 'compulsory.' I am against the word 'socialized.' " He was sure that the Government could do more for the national health...
...Panaceas." What did Ike get out of his trip to Korea? He tried to give an off-the-cuff summary to 125 correspondents who crowded into the Eighth Army's war room for a press conference on his last day. Said he: "We have no panaceas, no trick ways of settling any problems . . . How difficult it seems to be in a war of this kind to work out a plan that would bring a positive and definite victory without possibly running the grave risk of enlarging the war. There are many limitations in a war of this kind...