Word: instantness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Fast forward to Massachusetts, following recruitment at Harvard and the harsher environment of varsity tennis. As a fledging freshman-and-sophomore partnership competing against more established opponents, their on-court chemistry was instant...
...Felicity had felt every hard muscle as she slid down his unyielding length. She could feel her own body quiver, as though she had lost control. He held her against him for an instant without letting her feet touch the ground. Their eyes were locked together, and in his hazel-flecked gaze she saw a smile dissolve into the ruthless determination of a predator. Deliberately, tantalizing, he let her feet touch the ground. Still he did not release her. Felicity, her whole body trembling, tangled her fingers in his hair and pressed herself even closer. Her eyes closed...
...savers of lives, and was back in his popemobile. As he rolled away up the ramp and the bagpipes above began playing again, the 9/11 representatives wiped away tears and hugged each other. As photographers and cameramen put away their equipment, a local radio reporter was giving an instant report from his cell phone: "There's a humility about this man," he said, "that is quite something." he said...
...marketing muscle can increase sales from last year's 10.7 million cases. But the economics of producing vodka surely played a part in its calculations. Whisky and brandy spend years maturing in wooden casks before they can be sold, tying up cash in inventory, but vodka is practically an instant money machine. The chemistry is simple: ferment grain or potatoes or even grapes to make alcohol, then concentrate it by distillation. Filter the resulting colorless, odorless spirit, possibly give it a fruit flavor, push out the publicity boat with a sexy name and designer bottles, and--voilą!--you have...
...While it's true that many states are now more likely to share important information about certain mentally unstable people with the National Instant Criminal Background Check system, a good number of states are also pushing new laws to allow students and/or faculty to carry concealed weapons on campus...