Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never swamped him. Calhoun not only has everything under control but at his fingertips. He keeps his own index of Navy tankers, knows every moment where each one is. No man dares tell him a job has been done if it hasn't-Calhoun knows in an instant, and woe betide the offender (although the Admiral may ask him to lunch half an hour later...
...slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden spurt of anger he told Buzz that what the Japanese had just done was neither "decent nor Christian...
...find situations that, at times, irk me but a little thinking on the subject usually eases my conscience and clarifies the case at hand. ... If the riveters are on board waiting for the carpenters, the carpenters are on board, etc., then the maximum effort can be delivered at an instant's notice, whereas if each had to be located somewhere else, their-tools brought to the ship, and time lost in getting ready for work it would still require at least four other men to keep one working...
...storage of gasoline in living quarters, entirely apart from being wholly illegal, presents such a hazard to the lives of all persons living in a building that it cannot be tolerated for an instant...
...then in broad daylight, at 12:30 Saturday noon, it happened. In from the sea swept a fleet of U.S. bombers, and for the first time in 2,602 years the island cities of Japan were subjected to enemy assault. Smashed in an instant of terror was the myth of immunity the people of Japan had accepted for generations as gospel...