Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enjoying a post-exam rest at a friend's home in Westport, Connecticut, Warner saw the pursuit plane plunge into the ocean not over a half-mile away. Without pausing for an instant, he rushed to a nearby yacht basin, found a rowboat and set out over the choppy waters of the Sound...
Toward the stroke of twelve, Churchill raised his glass high and steady, spoke clearly in his soft growl, pausing an instant between each phrase...
...Winston Churchill had no great moment in 1941 to measure up to the history-arresting instant in 1940 when he spoke for his people in their finest hour: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. . . ." Churchill was still awakening men to the meaning of the war, and no one had done a better job. He was a man of the year, of the decade, and, if his cause won, of all time...
...20th Century-Fox stopped production on Pearl Harbor Pearl, got Secret Agent of Japan ready for instant production...
Headman of the Los Angeles County Defense Council is Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz. He can call into almost instant action some 200,000 operatives. His force includes regular cops and 15,000 emergency deputies, Legionnaires, Boy Scouts and air-raid wardens, Red Cross doctors and nurses, an air squadron of civilian flyers, who furnish their own planes...