Word: off-the-cuff
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Bess Truman was down with a cold, so like the dutiful husband he is, the President had dinner at home. But at 9 o'clock he slipped over to Washington's Hotel Statler, and dropped in to make a few off-the-cuff remarks before a banquet of the Society of Business Magazine Editors...
...Besides doing his usual chores during the last fortnight, for instance, he gave off-the-cuff talks at two colleges, Wellesley and Holy Cross, and a full-dress formal speech at the New York Herald Tribune Forum at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
WOLMI (Moon Tip) ISLAND was a rather useless place. Its only local reputation was as an off-the-cuff summer resort for the town of Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
...Dined with 55 A.F.L. and C.I.O. labor leaders and gave his by-now-familiar off-the-cuff, after-dinner speech: "There are probably a million people in this country who could do the presidential job better than I but I've got the job and I'm doing the very best...
...back on the train 36 miles up the track and making an off-the-cuff speech to a crowd of 5,000 at Mexico, Mo. He left his special car for an automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants...