Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps to his house on a hill high above the Hollywood Bowl. Below him was one of the great man-made sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth anniversary as mayor. Civic leaders had honored him at a big luncheon...
...trying to write music that would seem entirely new-from his tricky Rudepoema (inspired by the profile of Pianist Artur Rubinstein) to his brilliant Bachianas Brasileiras, a volatile mixture of his own two idols, Bach and Villa-Lobos. He is a fiery little man who can jump in an instant from twinkling good humor to a shouting, stamping rage. He is vain enough to give his age as 60 (though friends say he is 67), and to rush his music indiscriminately into print. "The maestro," a Rio critic once said, "has written about 2,000 works. I would throw...
...famous Father Orr of Cambridge, Mass. . . . who was always called 'Billy,' [was once] asked, 'What is your specialty?' Billy hesitated an instant and then, in the rich brogue which made him famous, replied: 'My specialty is raising money for church purposes without giving scandal...
...body hit a skein of telephone wires, caught for a second and plunged on, ripping the wires loose from the walls. She landed, groaning, on the cement courtyard, the wire still wrapped in a tangle around her legs. There was an instant of silence. Then the whole neighborhood was in an uproar...
...World War II, and apparently his best friend died in battle because Ladd was a c-w-rd. And now Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed). But by the time the picture ends it is clear that Ladd never funked for an instant, handed out no more bullying at West Point than he took, never tells lies, and is in every way worthy of the Academy and of Miss Reed...