Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the drugstores' agent suggested that the rejected pair might make a good team, they decided to try. They were an instant success with the Thrifty Stores and their public. Truculence was the keynote of their first script. They climbed all over Charles Lindbergh ("The Molting Eagle"), Senator Burton K. Wheeler ("The Voice of the Montana Sheepherder"), Senator Rush Holt ("Marco Polo in Rompers"), and America First ("America Last"). Hordes of listeners thought the team's colloquial views of the world situation made sense. Typical was an October 1940 broadcast...
Virginia Woolf achieved the unified sensibility, the fusion of thought and emotion in concentration on a particular instant, but her total product lacks structural unity. Daiches, too, is full of remarkable insights into her work, but his total picture is not as clear as it might be throughout his book. One sentence in the final chapter provides an admirable summing up: "She developed a type of fiction in which sensitive personal reactions to experience can be objectified and patterned in a manner that is both intellectually exciting and aesthetically satisfying...
...coast. In the dark of a Sunday evening, Lunde, with his wife and a district party leader, arrived in Vage to take the little ferryboat that went across the fjord to Andalsnes. The chauffeur drove the limousine out on the slip, got out and strolled aboard the ferry. An instant later, slip and ferry parted. The car teetered, plunged into the icy water...
...that used to be occupied by an engineer and his family. On the floor stand pots removed from the window ledge, and in their place is a range finder used for long-distance observation. In a village several kilometers away we see German mobile units on the move. An instant later several of them touch off our well-hidden mines and blow up. The angered Germans reply with a mortar barrage directed at nothing in particular...
...bomb arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...