Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentries had not even challenged them. Jumping down from a truck, their leader, dressed as a high Austrian Army officer with medals blazing on his chest, barked orders to close and bolt the great oak doors of the Ballhaus. Even this seemed regular enough to the sentries but an instant later they quailed as pistols were pressed to their ribs with the order: "Drop your arms! You and the rest are hostages. If the Ballhaus is attacked...
After five hours the Bordens were turned loose and in pitch darkness struggled back along a lonely road toward Istanbul. By extreme good luck they met Adam Cieminsky, clerk of the U. S. Military Attaché at Istanbul, and from that instant things moved fast...
...Press made much of what it supposed to be a new and more sympathetic attitude of the NRAdministrator but Germany took instant offense. That night in his hotel room at Omaha, General Johnson was surprised and chagrined to have newshawks call upon him with the news that the German Government, purple with rage, was about to protest. Sitting in his undershirt before an electric fan, the General let himself go in more characteristic fashion...
...drastic ultimatum at his Nazi enemies. He gave them five days in which to hand over all their explosives to his government. After that anyone caught with such a thing in Austria faced sentence of Death, by decree of Engelbert Dollfuss. Well he knew that this decree invited instant bomb attacks on himself and family...
...last week the most advanced technique for blood transfusion was to be found in Moscow. There, the instant someone commits suicide, dies of hears failure, or is killed by accident, an ambulance rushes his corpse to Sklifassovsky Institute for Urgent Aid where one of Surgeon Sergius Judin's aides quickly straps the body to a see-saw table, tilts it head down, drains the blood through a tap in the jugular vein. A small quantity of blood is set aside for laboratory study while the rest, treated with potassium citrate, goes into cold storage. Surgeon Judin, who perfected...