Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denied saying such a thing, an ugly boycott elbowed through Mexico. "Foreigners and Masons" bore the brunt of it. One of its instant effects: "pastillas de Palmolives" disappeared from grocers' shelves. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet advertised frantically for sales agents...
...vertical axis (controlling the plane's tilt), the other horizontally (controlling direction). They are connected, electrically or by air locks, with the plane's controls (rudder, ailerons and elevators). When the plane pitches, banks or makes the slightest deviation from a set course, the gyroscopes make instant corrections in the controls to put it back on course. The gyropilot acts much more quickly and holds a course more steadily than a human pilot...
Lights Up. Suddenly the floodlights came up; the hard-working craftsman disappeared. In an instant the President was his old broad-smiling self, waving gaily as the diners applauded, smiling and joking with others at the head table. He remained seated during the speech...
Thousands of people in homes and in the streets felt the instant blast of furnace heat, blinked at the puzzling light. In a house a block from the tanks Mrs. Charles Flickinger plugged in her vacuum cleaner, and started back. At the same instant the walls glared red and the curtains caught fire. A surveyor stared at the towering flames, automatically sighted past a factory roof and a chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women...
This diplomatic spit & polish was the work of a tireless Frenchwoman, Mme. Simone Blanchard, who had been secretary at the Embassy when Ambassador Bullitt pulled out in 1941. She kept the place ready for instant reoccupancy...