Word: headlong
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...want the United States to rush headlong into a war with one of the poorest nations on earth, but if we are going to war, I’d like to know whom against. If we are going to war, I would sure like to know it. And I’m sure a lot of other Americans would too. I can’t believe that the government is simply dilly-dallying as it fuddles around trying to figure out what to do. I’d much rather believe that they are simply not telling us what...
...Queda, the President made clear, is different. And in his speech the President made defeating this particular hodgepodge the defining mission of his presidency. His take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Taliban was really just a feign at rushing headlong into a military assault on Afghanistan; there?s no way that the Kabul crowd would accept the president?s demand that they open their country for inspection and "hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure." That?d be most of the Taliban regime...
...Queda, the President made clear, is different. And in his speech the President made defeating this particular hodgepodge the defining mission of his presidency. His take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Taliban was really just a feign at rushing headlong into a military assault on Afghanistan; there?s no way that the Kabul crowd would accept the president?s demand that they open their country for inspection and "hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure." That?d be most of the Taliban regime...
...worried about going on a ride, or if something about plunging headlong through space protected only by a steel cage strikes you as unnatural, you're certainly not alone - stick to the cotton candy. And if you've got kids who are determined to climb aboard a ride that gives you the willies, do your homework. Check the park's safety records and the incident reports (which parks are required to file in case of accidents that require first aid). Smell the breath of the kid operating the ride. Kick the proverbial tires (for in only a few rides, like...
...ever more powerful telescopes, these explorers of time and space have learned that the Milky Way is a huge, whirling pinwheel made of 100 billion or more stars; that tens of billions of other galaxies lie beyond its edges; and, most astonishing of all, that these galaxies are rushing headlong away from one another in the aftermath of an explosive cataclysm known as the Big Bang...