Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn to vote an end to three centuries of racial hatred. "We are starting a new era of hope, of reconciliation, of nation building." All across South Africa the people lined up to cast a ballot to escape from their past. All along Rwanda's borders and into the instant refugee camps, they lined up to escape from the future...
JACK KEMP. The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush has lined up top fund raisers and will relocate his political-action committee from Washington to strategically important California this week. He becomes the instant front runner if he jumps in, but campaign veterans are worried that he lacks the discipline to hold the pole position for long...
...Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While in the Merchant Marines during World War II, he published several short stories. One day, just after the war, he found himself typing, "I am an invisible man." He spent seven years developing that sentence into the work that brought him instant fame...
...trades take place in an electronic neverland that can be entered from anywhere in the world. Billion-dollar transactions involving derivatives or other securities that once took hours or days to handle are now routinely completed in seconds -- with all the potential risk or reward that comes with instant gains and losses...
...Holy smokes! AHHHHHHHHHHH! Run!!!" I screamed as I gave myself up to my fight-or-flight mode. Faced with the prospect of watching a real fiery aeroplane crash, I leaped and tumbled down the dune, screaming in terror. In an instant we found ourselves at the bottom of the dune in a heap, huddling in morbid anticipation of the impending explosion that would spray bits of blazing metal to all corners of the idyllic North Shore...