The ability to improvise is helpful in all situations.

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The pilots had to have focus, daring, wits, and an ability to improvise the right stuff.

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Poets must be well-versed in the Greek Cypriot dialect, possess adequate knowledge of the popular poetry of Cyprus and the ability to retrieve existing, well-known Tsiattista and, above all, must be able to improvise a new couplet on a specific theme within very strict time constraints and be able to respond to his or her opponent.

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