Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody knew that an unexploded mine's fuse, jarred by the impact, was at work. Four and a half minutes after the Nazi airmen died, it set off its charge. Next instant there was a crater where the wrecked Heinkel had been. Surrounding houses were smashed flat. A baby carriage hung from a treetop...
This past week has brought editorial damnation of tutoring school practices which have taken root at Princeton in the last few years. Success promises to come rapidly in this latest campaign, with almost instant college approval and cooperation. The other programs are slower moving, but even the loudest rumblings of the "Princetonian," that king-pin of the impressive Nassau extra-curricular hierarchy, can't change things over night...
Roman electricians say they have been busy lately connecting private telephone wires between Government offices and the apartments of certain blonde ladies-so that no matter what or where his exercise, Il Duce can get last-minute bulletins on the international situation and issue instant orders...
...Allied expeditionary force for beleaguered Finland. The Papal daily Osservatore Romano in Vatican City credited this view, at least so far as supplies went. In England, erstwhile War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha added color to the world's conjectures with a fighting (and uncensored) speech calling for instant Allied aid to Finland by land, air and sea. Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov, handsome young top commissar of the Red Navy, was reported speeding to Murmansk, main base for Russia's northern Fleet. White Russians in the U. S. talked excitedly about a counter-revolutionary regime...
...lagging post from somewhere in France, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin last week got a fan letter from the Western Front. "Now that our life, which can be taken away at every instant, has become more sharpened," wrote a soldier in striving English, "I want to say my admiration for the ones who have enjoyed my civil time...