Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the war, her husband went into uniform (he became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Force radio unit), and Ros was off on USO shows, telling jokes and singing Baby, That's a Wolf. In Washington, she met Mamie Eisenhower. They took an instant shine to each other: Mamie asked Ros to tea, and Ros asked Mamie to dinner. She did not meet the General until three years later...
Hands on the Tiller. Swiftly but quietly, the Soviet world put on mourning. The momentous news had come piece by piece over 48 hours, every word carefully prepared and timed to cushion the shock. Everything about it suggested that a fresh, firm hand had taken over the instant Joseph Stalin's had begun to falter...
...miles a day, pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat-and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet-'All things betray thee, who betrayest...
...moment before his death (in 1893), the electric lights in the house and street went out. When his daughter cried out, "Don't let father die in the dark!", all the lights flashed on again. And in that instant, Booth died. As his coffin was being carried from the church in New York, a "splintering roar" was heard in Washington. By a macabre coincidence, the interior supports of Ford's Theater had collapsed, killing 21 people. He left a new tradition, but the old one pursued...