Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shouted down the hole, "Come out!" and jumped back with astonishment when a muffled voice replied: "I have work to do." Then smoke curled from the small opening; the trapped man had started to burn secret papers. Police rushed for water and poured it down the hole. An instant later, a revolver cracked in the depths of the crypt...
Queen Unaware. "The King is dead; long live the Queen," stated thus traditionally with hardly a pause, is no mere paradox. It encompasses a principle close to the essence of British monarchy; that the realm is never, even for an instant, without a ruler. Britain's new Queen, the sixth woman to rule over England, became sovereign without even knowing it. With Philip, her staff and their game-hunting hosts, she was spending the night in a tree hut in Kenya's Royal Aberdare Game Reserve, watching big game gather at a jungle waterhole...
...danger signal in the daylong, $300 million mob orgy fortnight ago in Cairo's streets. It was no spontaneous outburst of patriots angered by the British troops who killed 46 Egyptian policemen at Ismailia the day before (TIME, Feb. 4). The riot was blueprinted and timed to the instant. Rioters struck at 220 different points within 30 minutes. Jeep-borne leaders coordinated the separate gangs, providing target directions, fuel and weapons...
Every day she went down to the monolith in the cactus grove. Wiser now, she wore only a wrapper and sandals, so that in an instant she was naked to the sun. (page...
Every day she went down to the cypress tree, among the cactus grove ... She was wiser and subtler now, wearing only a dove-grey wrapper, and sandals. So that in an instant ... she was naked to the sun. (page...