Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Force of Habit. In Syracuse, N.Y., when his wife shouted, "Stop that this instant!" a would-be suicide obediently cut himself down...
Rooms for Tourists, like most of Hopper's work, has the strange clarity of something seen once for an instant by a passing driver. It is a familiar vision without any of the dullness familiarity brings. The house looms sharply in the long darkness of the night, and the light shining from its windows is warm as bed. The impression, and the invitation, are instantaneous; the road leads on past...
...buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...table were the U.S.'s George Marshall and Britain's Ernie Bevin. Marshall dominated the room. He sat quite erect as always, listening to everything, talking least of all. But whenever he did speak, or even when he made a discernible movement among his papers, he got instant, taut attention. Bevin spoke in bursts, slumped back in his chair betweentimes. Sometimes, to the horrified fascination of others at the table, he rolled his false teeth (new last year) gently back & forth in his great jaws...
...letter in a Harvard sport an athlete must do exactly one thing--play for an instant against Yale. Back in the days when Harvard and Yale were the kingpins of the college world, this was the logical arrangement. But in 1947 although the Yale game is still the climax of the season, it is no longer more important than the sum of the other games despite earnest dreams of ancient athletes...