Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After fighting since 1993 to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history, Faulkner floundered for less than five days, most of them spent in the campus infirmary, before deciding to quit. "The past 2-1/2 years came crashing down on me in an instant," she said in a quavering voice when announcing her decision. In a final sign of how anxious some people at the school were to be rid of her, when she returned to her barracks to gather her belongings, she found they had already been packed...
...heat from Little Boy singed more than 4 sq mi. of Hiroshima reddish-brown. In the process, it left a bizarre photographic negative of the instant of destruction. Objects, human or inanimate, that came between the blast and other objects cast their shadows as unburned patterns on the protected space: a spiral ladder was imprinted on the surface of a storage plant behind it. Survivors foraging for food in vegetable gardens later that day dug up potatoes and found that they had been baked in the ground...
...HAVE BEEN ONLINE FOR A couple of months. I in no way feel endangered by the material available on the Internet. Senator James Exon would have you think that the instant a kid goes online, he or she is bombarded with nasty pictures and messages from perverts. Sure, there's pornography on the net, but so far none of it has been forced upon me or any of my friends who are online. Which leads me to ask if Exon has ever been online. If he has, he would realize that there is no need for protection. Think...
...dismantle ATF. But he underestimated the depth of respect accorded the bureau among other law-enforcement agencies and was forced to backpedal. He announced later that he would still demolish ATF but assign its agents to the U.S. Secret Service. ATF agents, who saw the shift as conferring instant prestige, loved the idea; the N.R.A., however, realized it was about to lose one of its best fund-raising assets. Suddenly the N.R.A. rode to ATF's rescue, blocking its demise. The reversal drew an acid appraisal from New Jersey Representative William Hughes, who accused the association of retreating because...
...stands to reason that humans would have a specialized region of the brain for processing emotional perceptions and memories: if our distant ancestors hadn't had an instant and violent reaction to danger, they would not have lived very long. But other parts of the brain are apparently also involved in feeling emotions. What's most surprising is the assertion by the University of Iowa's Damasio that emotion is central to the process of rational thought...