Word: off-the-cuff
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...whether he's going to wind up with a blast at Wall Street or a side remark that sets his State Department to explaining that U.S. policy on Russia is unchanged. But when he dropped in at the Statler Hotel one night last week for a little off-the-cuff talk at a National Planning Association dinner, the President was all primed with a theme to suit his audience...
...published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion. To find happiness, each man must act to free himself from...
...last September, in California's Central Valley, Candidate Harry Truman made his political advisers wince with an off-the-cuff attack on hard-shelled Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart. Said Harry Truman: "You have got a terrible Congressman here. He has done everything he possibly could do to cut the throats of the farmer and the laboring man." Some of his aides, remembering the lesson of F.D.R.'s purge, argued that personal attacks often boomeranged in favor of the target. But wherever he went, Harry Truman never ceased to "pour it on" Republican members of the 80th Congress...
...domestic views are more liberal than those of almost any other prominent G.O.P. candidate. Dewey indicated that Warren would get the job of reorganizing the nation's executive departments, take on a large share of administrative work. His big, easy Scandinavian charm and gift of homy, off-the-cuff phrases make him an extremely effective campaigner, would add needed warmth and folksiness to the ticket...
...couldn't stand it." He seemed to be certain that he was embarking on a sort of political Sheridan's Ride, and that his straggling troops would wheel, cheer, and rally behind him as he crossed the continent. As he began making the first of many off-the-cuff, rear-platform speeches, he announced again and again and again, that he was certain to be reelected...