Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomb squad Detectives Joseph Lynch and Ferdinand Socha arrived. Lynch cut a hole in one corner of the buff-colored bag. Several sticks of dynamite were exposed. The tick-tick-tick continued. Lynch stepped back, remarked: "It looks like the real goods." At that instant the bomb went...
...Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...
...sinister shape, flinched and screamed, but the fierce talons closed on tender flesh, the child was caught into the air, and with powerful pinions beating, the eagle headed for its eyrie. At that moment the child's father spreng out the door with his rifle. Without an instant's hesitation, risking the child's life if his aim were not true, he fired. The great bird tumbled to earth. Except for lacerations, the little girl was unhurt...
...instant stands at ease...
...work has been done in preparation for a picture on the subject. [Based on Fulop-Miller's Triumph Over Pain-ED.] It is from Daniel Webster, written Dec. 20, 1851, addressed to Dr. W. T. G. Morton and states: "In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, I would say that having been called upon, on a previous occasion, to examine the question of the discovery of the application of ether in surgical operations I then formed the opinion which I have since seen no reason to change, that the merit of that great discovery belonged...