Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transfixed as I watched this annual ritual, and in an instant, I knew Winthrop was the Dream House...
...then last week, in an instant, the World Trade Center in New York City became ground zero...
Begala and the team got together with the President after he wrapped up his lunch in which he prespun the network news anchors who would be giving instant analysis on a speech that at that point consisted of pieces of paper scattered the length of the table. At 2 p.m. there was little economics in the first 11 pages. The President talked through a passage about having to play the hand you're dealt after 20 years of exploding debt. "A big part of the job," says Begala, "is being able to take dictation. I always remember...
...else what? Clinton, speaking to a group of business leaders and lobbyists, peered into the abyss. He described open-ended decline, a most un- American falling off. Salesmanship: for an instant, Clinton touched the American fear that the nation might find itself transformed, for the worse, beyond recognition. But then he proffered the brighter scenario, if things are done the Administration's way: a growing economy, jobs, the "great American middle class" rewarded for its labors and sturdy virtues...
...volcano seemed to take a big breath, first sucking in air, then exploding," said a Colombian tourist who survived unhurt. Garcia and Menyailov died in an instant in the 600 degreesC blast of toxic gases. On the western rim of the cone, British geologist Geoffrey Brown and two Colombian colleagues were also incinerated as gas and heat spurted upward...