Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris. Ill., John Prombo saw a cow chewing her cud in the path of a speeding train. Racing down the railroad tracks, he coaxed, tugged, pushed, could not budge the placid animal. In the instant before the train was upon them, the cow loped safely off the tracks. The engine killed John Prombo...
...above the Hudson, which had been erected for a boys' school. Radical literary folk were welcomed, the idea behind the establishment being bonhomie and laissez faire. Sinclair Lewis went down from Yale to tend the furnace. Englewood, then as now a tycoons' home ground, took an instant dislike to the Helicon Hallers and their host, who used to go around the town in old corduroys, flannel shirt and sandals. The place burned down one March night in 1907, killing a drunken carpenter. An arson charge was brought against Sinclair, but subsequently dropped. And the New York Press inspired...
...wife, who composed whole poems without pencil or paper and died in 1928 from the effects of falling downstairs. Declared Mr. Benét: "No photograph can recapture the distinction of her actual appearance, the strange, unforgettable beauty, the remote fastidiousness, the shy, almost scared aloofness followed on the instant by some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually and for a short time. She was beautiful, with eyes that changed their expression from that of a falcon to that of a kitten...
...Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture and assassination. From Serbia's point of view this policy worked for all the provinces but one. The Croats were not to be downed. They fought back, inside Jugoslavia...
Martial law had been proclaimed the instant the revolution got under way. On the morning after the bloodletting, Spanish warships were still plumping shells into a few rebellious villages, there were snipers still on the rooftops of various towns, but the great Socialist uprising was over. Strikers, however, were still out. In Madrid, Spanish soldiers were called in from the streets. Stripped to the waist they labored in the city's deserted bakeries, baking bread...