Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from direct contact with nature. Among his favorite areas were the forests near his native Ornans. It was probably there that in the 1860s he painted Forest Pool (see opposite), recently acquired by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, in which he set down a summer's instant that in breathless hush remains a delight to hunter and nature lover alike...
...forget for one instant that we are putting $36 or $37 billions of expenditures every year into arms and armaments, [and] that . . . they will merely defend what we have got. But when you talk about something that promotes a business arrangement-trade-when you can talk about something that proposes a better understanding . . . then you are talking about something constructive, something that yields results over the years to come. Don't make the ignorant, uninformed decision that only in armaments are we going to find the solution of our foreign problems...
Early this month the government, with great fanfare, set up a flying column of 2,500 cold-war troopers supposedly in instant readiness to take off for any place-Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus. But according to Stokes, the government lacks the planes to move them...
...Next instant he is wooing the widow of a prince he recently killed "in my angry mood at Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has him murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot...
Twining's answer: "Yes. But I must qualify this. The greater our margin of superiority, the more quickly we could win the air battle. If we could knock out the enemy's capability to hit the U.S., let us say the instant his bombers taxi out to hit us, the U.S. would lose no cities. If it took us a day, the U.S. might have X numbers of bombs dropped on it. If it took us a week, the U.S. might have 2X bombs dropped on it. And if it took us a month, the U.S. might have...