Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion instant...
Hopping into their buff-colored roadster, the Ibisites whipped down to the Opera House to grab their namesake. Just as they arrived, one dozen strong, the bird appeared for an instant at the portals of the theatre. Rearing back at the night of the men who had been its master for 63 years, the feathered fowl fied back through the doors and vanished once again
...based on the sun's position in relation to 24 "standard" meridians which lie at intervals of approximately 15° longitude around the earth. Thus when the sun is directly overhead at Greenwich, G.C.T. and local time are both 12 o'clock noon. At the same instant it is 7 a.m. local time-Eastern Standard-in New York, but the chronometer of a ship in the harbor will read - with corrections - 12h oom oos G.C.T., though the sun may be only just rising. The Court's suggestion: substitute the 24 letters of the Latin Alphabet...
...instant I felt it I wanted to own it." With her new-found knowledge Peggy opened a gallery in London, cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." Among her first exhibitors were Arp ("He served me break fast every morning"), Kandinsky ("So jolly and charming, with a horrid wife"), and Yves Tanguy ("He had . . . beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place...
...opaque that it turns the midday sun into a pallid ghost. But the atom bomb's light can strike through it at 20 miles away, causing temporary blindness. The Captain's advice: face the other way, shut your eyes, cover your face with your arms. Then, an instant later, you may see something...