Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torpedo struck at dusk. The cargo of petroleum was ablaze in an instant. On the stern of the tanker, Kelly and ten shipmates struggled frantically with the falls of a lifeboat. Said Kelly: "I saw the captain, with his face all bloody, run through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
...those historical accidents wherein an author, an idea and a ready public all collide at the right instant, Lieut. Colonel William F. Kernan became a nationally quoted strategist overnight. His Defense Will Not Win the War (Little, Brown; $1.50), a fast, hot, rough-&-tumble book that people could eat up, hit the bookstands when everyone was saying the same thing...
...clouds. Less well known is the fact that the Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such a hail of ack-ack fire that it had to retreat...
Trucks bring the wounded from the front in a few hours and fill up operating tables in large tents. Often bombs fall so close to his operating table that Surgeon Lieut. Colonel Jack Schwartz must hesitate an instant until it is steady again. Major operations are usually performed under local anesthetic. But so far there have been enough sulfa drugs for all patients...
Heat v. Cold. Blood clots may lodge in the lungs, cause instant death. They may also form in arms or legs, choke off circulation. If they lodge in an artery, they prevent the flow of fresh, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the limb; if they dam up a vein, they prevent the return of used blood, heavy with body poisons, to the heart. Without proper circulation of the blood to keep them alive, body tissues die, become gangrenous...