Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department, which has devoted a lot of thought to Iceland lately, showed instant signs of appreciation. The State Department announced that a new vice consul was being dispatched to represent the U.S. in Reykjavik. He was tall, blond, coolheaded, young (33) Career Diplomat Henry Bartlett Wells, known as a highly efficient fellow who has turned in excellent reports from all his posts, last of which was at the U.S. Legation in Managua, Nicaragua...
Still arguing as the clock struck 12, outgoing Holt and quick-change artist Neely made their separate, solemn appointments for the Senate seat that was not vacant until the instant Neely vacated it. Long and wearily Senate legal pundits debated who should get the decision. Four months passed...
...when the nation's leaders, who fortnight ago seemed all sewed up by the Nazis, showed signs of stiffening, if only for a historic instant, the people were hysterically happy. The stiffening was obtuse: it evidenced itself in rumors and unconfirmed statements-that Yugoslavia would accept nothing more than a non-aggression pact; that when trim, elegant German Minister to Belgrade Victor von Heeren strongly urged adherence to the Axis pact, and offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked...
...puppet operas run 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, cut to fit the occasion. The records are played on two turntables, are marked with oil crayon so that recitatives or whole arias can be cut out in an instant...
Main Event. At 12:30 the real show began. Warning was given of a squadron of dive bombers-lean, bat-winged Junkers 87B, the first to appear against the British in the Mediterranean-streaking in from the north at 18,000 feet. In an instant the Illustrious was achurn. Over the loudspeaker system brassed the marine bugler's warning, the boatswain's call: "All hands to action stations." Gun crews jumped to their pompoms. Pilots raced for their planes. Down the deck roared the first flight of Fairey Fulmar fighters, bouncing up into the sky. Behind them...