Word: headlong
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...without guidance from the College, students who want to go into theater upon graduation throw themselves headlong into the pre-professional world they have created. While the College does offer them more in the way of advising, those planning to enter business or journalism do the same. And often, they say, this is simply a more attractive option than Harvard’s course offerings...
...University’s decision not to rush headlong into [the alliance] several years ago has been very much vindicated by the difficulties that a number of much ballyhooed ventures introduced by other universities have run into,” he says...
...Arafat will simply expand their own vulnerability. Those Israelis who continue believe that peace is still possible with the Palestinians on the basis of two states living side by side have become a minority - although they're displaying a newfound assertiveness, fueled by the fear that Sharon is driving headlong down a path of no return that will entomb Israelis and Palestinians in their current deadly embrace...
...Just Say Yes,” on the other hand, rejuvenates the headlong, Peter Pan aspect of Smith, the infamously uncrying boy, with one wicked guitar hook surfing the prominent bass lines that are pure Cure, and toying with an array of nouveau rock electric effects. The guest vocalist Saffron spurs Smith to heights worthy of a star-struck 14-year old, as the two of them holler, “Say this is it / Don’t say maybe / Don?...
...another Charlotte, the plain teenage daughter of Swenson's childhood friend, drifts between an affair with a mysterious math teacher, an older man of shifting and suspect identity, and study sessions with her uncle, a history professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages he had trained himself not to think in anymore...