Word: headlong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since it was founded as a 250 variety store in Lynn, Mass., the W.T. Grant Co. had never failed to ring up an annual profit. Indeed, until recently it had been pursuing a headlong expansion program. But last week Chairman James G. Kendrick confirmed rumors that had been sweeping the industry for months: Grant's profits and progress had both come to a thudding halt. After a grim meeting with Grant's bankers at the chain's new Manhattan headquarters, Kendrick said that the company would report a loss of $175 million for the past year...
...unintentional slurring of the lyrics (by that time he had quite a bit to drink). Since the previously established snail's pace of the tune did not lend itself to a final ritard, the tune did not lend itself in the only way possible--the band itself literally falling headlong onto the stage. The band did one final number, "Good Golly Miss Molly," which featured some highly impressive guitar work on the part of brother Dave. The audience's desire for the pre-Preservation Kinks having been satisfied, the stage was set for the grand spectacle to come...
With those words, President Gerald Ford last week reaffirmed his promise to restore a sense of national unity and purpose-to replace, as his friend and adviser Bryce Harlow expresses it, a national frown with a national smile. To that end, Ford maintained a headlong pace throughout the second full week of his presidency...
...truthful they are customarily boring. Creamer, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, does not disguise the fact that his hero was an overgrown child and far from a genius. Ruth, in fact, sometimes had trouble remembering the names of fellow players. But he played baseball-and lived-with a headlong joy that has rarely been matched...
...belief that this time he shall reach the top. And that vision of the top, at a distance from him measurable in finite hours of labor is the only real, compelling vision that he has. Now this is a tricky business. It requires that an actor playing Willy follow headlong each rising line without anticipating the inevitable fall, all the time that he knows he is spiralling deeper and deeper into a hole from which he will not emerge. In short it demands that an actor believe totally in the authenticity of Willy Loman, and it's never clear that...