Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands a certain quantity of uranium. But Russian agents are after the stuff. We are now trying to get it to America. The mission is highly dangerous. What we need are fearless, young, patriotic men, willing to work for France." Young (29) Baron Scipion du Roure reflected for an instant on the pallidity of the languid life he had been leading. "Je suis votre homme," said he solemnly...
...lone soldier guarding the door. Moved by pity, he pulled the bolt, and the village women rushed out. Before them, with a machine gun in firing position, were three Germans. They waved empty wine bottles and laughed drunkenly. but they did not fire. The women glanced for one terrified instant at their town-almost every house and building and stable in it was ablaze -then ran for the hills, dragging their children behind them...
...Coffee. A coffee maker that plugs into an auto dashboard socket has been put on the market by Technische Apparate Vertriebsgesellschaft, West Germany. The gadget signals with a whistle when the water boils, pours it onto instant coffee, cocoa or a tea bag with the turn of a knob. Price...
Bellows' home town of Columbus, Ohio. The Whitney Museum's Dempsey and Firpo shows Bellows at his toughest- hard, sweaty, and as direct as a left jab. He was at ringside with a commission from the New York Journal to draw the fight. He chose the instant when Firpo nailed the overconfident champion, sent him through the ropes and into the ringside seats. Children on the Porch, at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, shows Bellows on the opposite tack. His paints become lighter and clearer; the mood is one of quiet serenity on the sun porch...
...doctor reporting for duty at the federal hospital on the lower Mississippi was in a hurry, and he strode along the path by the levee paying no attention to the hazards. He brushed against a shower-soaked crepe myrtle, and, in an instant, his trig new Public Health Service uniform was drenched. Barely pausing, Dr. Frederick Andrew Johansen loosed a stream of expletives that he had learned as a boy among the mule skinners in Missouri. A couple of patients told the others what they had heard. From that first moment, the patients concluded that Dr. Johansen...