Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until she was 40 did Lucille Ball become Lucy Ricardo. She was elevated from the ranks of the Ann Millers of the world forever, however, once I Love Lucy premiered in 1951. The show, created by Ball and her husband, bandleader Desi Arnaz, was an instant smash...
...first meets Cornelius. After all,. he is a 35 year old man who has never kissed a girl but has decided now is the time. Cornelius, shy and lacking self-confidence, requires Dolly's help in wooing Mrs. Malloy; with Dolly's "boost" of confidence, he becomes an instant charmer. Cornelius and Malloy's duet, "It Only Takes A Moment," which rivals the title song as the best in the play, is a serious, beautiful contrast to the humorous wooing of Vandergelder by Dolly...
...Computer Museum in Boston houses UNIVAC I, the first machine to project correctly the winner of an election (1952). What would elections be today without instant poll results and projected winners...
...ouster derailed, at least temporarily, one of the most influential and < flamboyant careers in recent Wall Street memory. Garzarelli won instant fame in 1987 for warning investors to bail out of the stock market just before the October Crash. While she never flatly prophesied the collapse, she did tell a television interviewer one week before Black Monday that she was no longer buying stocks or bonds and had put all her money in CDs. That was enough to secure Garzarelli a reputation for having all but predicted the 508-point market drop. Her stature increased in 1990 when she urged...
Certainly it would be paternalistic to suggest that college students--especially Harvard students--aren't capable of deciding for themselves whether or not they need an instant $10,000 credit line. Most students probably do understand that magic plastic really isn't all that magical...