Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under her jester's mask of giggles, Edie is a changed girl. In that instant of discovery she drops her girlhood like an old pinafore and turns like a flash into a Shavian woman in love-absorbed, intense, sole-heartedly set on the capture of her own beloved, Charley Raunce...
...Francisco fate struck another terrible blow. Doctors found that Gertrude Hornbostel had contracted leprosy. Except for World War II, the Hornbostels had never been separated since their marriage on Guam in 1913. Major Hornbostel made an instant decision. When his wife was sent to the National Leprosarium at Carville, La., he went with her. He prepared to stay for life, settled down near the hospital grounds. The aging couple spent a great part of every day together...
Leahy switched to the T mainly because of its flexibility, then made his version the most flexible in existence. The trick is to hit from one formation - with quick-openers, mousetraps, fullback laterals, passes - catching the enemy where he is weakest at the instant the play begins...
...radio industry exploded into instant insurrection. ABC (Stop the Music and twelve other giveaways) was apparently elected to carry the ball. At week's end, while NBC and Mutual retired behind the breastworks of "No comment," ABC let fly a ringing announcement: "No changes will be made in ABC programs as a result of the FCC regulations. We feel certain that...injunctive relief will be granted to the radio industry...as a result of litigation which ABC will begin immediately." CBS announced it would join in seeking court review of the ruling...
...described what he saw: "The glasses would serve as my trademark and at the same time suggest the character-quiet, normal, boyish, clean, sympathetic, not impossible to romance." Pathé made four two-reelers of him in spectacles, and they were an instant success...