Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water . . . If you watched intently while a batsman swung in a closeup, you saw a regular rainbow of bats of varying colors. For a fraction of an instant, the moving bat became a big Japanese...
...suicidal," but the Frenchmen thought they knew better. They hawsered four tugs to Long Henry, chugged away with him into the Kattegat Straits between Denmark and Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long steel neck shot high above the waves, as if to get a last look at the shore; then, in a whirlpool of foam, he capsized and plunged to the bottom, taking with him one French sailor...
...book was an instant bestseller; its ribald irreverence made Rabelais famous to the laity, infamous to the clergy. It did not help his case that he was a lapsed monk, and the known father of a bastard. The rest of his life (he lived to be close to 60) was spent under the continual threat of the Inquisitional stake...
...before each turn, he began kidding with Papa and Manager George Gainford, was soon talking baseball and skipping an imaginary rope. By the time he walked down the aisle to the ring, jogging rhythmically to some inner melody, the atmosphere of tension and strained horseplay was gone. From the instant the bell sounded, Sugar Ray Robinson was the master craftsman who knew just what he was doing-the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world...
...fixed in a succession of moments that make captions superfluous (Duncan uses none). To capture such moments, Duncan had to become, in effect, a front-line soldier. Only in that way could he get close enough to photograph the grenade in flight, the finger squeezing the trigger, the first instant of surprised shock of the wounded...