Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian: "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. . . . Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits...
This heart-warming moment was an instant of quiet in three days of hubbub and hero worship which began as soon as his seven brothers (six in uniform) pummeled a welcome on his back at the airport. "Commando" quickly settled one point in the hubbub: whether the dilapidated alley home was a fit place for a returning Congressional Medal of Honor winner. (City officials had first offered a new apartment, then engaged a $55-a-day suite at the William Penn Hotel when they learned that the Kelly home had no electric lights, no bathroom plumbing and little paint.) Said...
...blacks and dazzling whites. Untroubled by any of the shadings in between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much as he can do any afternoon in half an hour at the typewriter." Columnist Fisher also...
Close by the Daily News building was Louie's saloon, where a bookie named Moxie shined a well-tailored elbow on the bar. He met Lane next day: "Who's this guy Oxie? The cops'll be thinking he's me." Lane fumbled only an instant: "You don't know Oxie? Why that's Oxie O'Rourke, down the street." Thus Oxie got a last name...
...cleaving radio music, deep in the night.) Meanwhile the Honest Man (Brian Aherne), who is writing Miss Russell's profile, loafs around with his hat jammed on (to prove he is a journalist), befriends the bemused Whirlwind, sneers at double-dealing Miss Russell, grabs her the instant she betrays a dawning sense of decency...