Word: off-the-cuff
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President Harry Truman, a specialist in the short, snappy, off-the-cuff answer to reporters' questions, was as brief as ever when the U.P.'s veteran Correspondent Merriman (Thank you, Mr. President) Smith first opened fire at the presidential press conference last week. Did he plan to take any steps to restore the money which the Senate (see THE CONGRESS) was busily whacking out of the $8.5 billion he wanted for the job of beefing up Europe? Of course he was going to keep working on it, the President said. He thought, however, that things looked hopeless...
Through the glassless windows of the conference house, the allied newsmen could see the delegates huddled over maps on a small round tea table. Several times laughter was heard and the spokesmen were seen to be talking off-the-cuff, two or more sometimes talking at once, which was a refreshing change from the stiff silences and the set speeches of the plenary sessions. When the meeting was over, General Hodes allowed himself to be photographed with his arm around North Korea's complaisant...
More Nickels. On the heels of Nashville 1283 came Nashville 1284. The arrangement took three minutes, 25 seconds -a bit too long ("The jukebox operators like them short-they get more nickels that way"). So the recorders dropped one verse, picked the off-the-cuff title Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way. Then they casually continued their session...
...neat bit of off-the-cuff campaigning, and was calculated-like his "hope" of making a cross-country give-'em-hell speaking tour this spring or summer-to gladden the hearts of the Democratic bigwigs who met in Denver last week to beat the drums for '52. Politics, like June, was bustin' out all over...
...began with a morning speech in the Hotel Statler's big grey and white Presidential Room; after only a minute or so of following a prepared text, he laid it aside, lifted his head, began to bounce on his heels and launched a burst of off-the-cuff oratory...