Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equal to its task, as when the collapse of Russian Army discipline in the moment of victory resulted in a vast, hideous carnival of raping and looting. But the long objective, of transforming Germany into a decisive westward extension of the Soviet system, has never been changed for an instant...
...with all London at her feet") is as far removed from Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly with names like Claude, Everard...
...guarded room aboard the Mount McKinley (flagship of Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy) Holloway faced a panel of numbered buttons. Each had to be pressed at a certain moment. Electronics did the rest. At the precise instant planned, Helen blew...
...melodrama to which Mr. Steele's plots boil up & down there is scarcely a credible instant. His characters really have nothing to say except, with one accord, "Mr. Steele is making us up." This is an old-fashioned kind of mediocrity. The new-fashioned kind, reportorial and unplotted, has been so done to death that readers might like these tales for a change. Or they might like Conrad and Maugham...
...waded right into the debate. He picked the three "episodes . . . most decisive in insuring victory." The first, obviously, was the battle of the Normandy beaches beginning at dawn on June 6, 1944. Eisenhower soberly notes that if the Germans had rushed their forces from the Calais area to do instant battle in Normandy, they "might well have turned the scales against us." ' His second decisive battle is not, surprisingly, the breakthrough at Saint-Lô, but the buttoning up of the Falaise pocket in mid-August. Here again, Eisenhower appreciates his foe's mistake: "The enemy showed that...