Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't had time to think about how I feel about the instant celebrity," Morgan said...
Mere chance seemed to determine who lived and who died. At one instant, the killer spared a mother and child, barking at her to get the youngster "out of here." An elderly woman put her arm around her husband, who had been wounded. As the killer approached her, she looked up, then bowed her head, and he shot her. The gunman faced down another patron, Sam Wink, but when a woman nearby tried to race off, he was distracted and fired at her, allowing Wink to flee. "It just seemed like slow motion, and he shot forever," Wink recalled...
Half a cup of instant coffee. Then a cigarette. Then, let's see, yeah, here's half a can of Coke left on the table, room temperature, no more fizz. Slug of Coke, swallow of whiskey, same again. Breakfast...
...Gray has instant doubts about the colony when he is assigned to the "Bates House," so named for the nurse who cared for the man who died of syphills in that cottage. Gray finds that he is unable to write, but feels that he can't leave, bemoaning, "How could I escape? I was in a privileged place...
SHELTON, Conn.--About a dozen construction workers became instant cowboys after they accidentally knocked down a dairy farm fence and gave 40 cows the chance to roam free...