Word: headlong
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...Dolly Parton's second fling with bluegrass follows on the clog heels of last year's excellent "The Grass Is Blue," and if it falls a bit short of its predecessor's headlong exhilaration, it still delivers a good helping of the right stuff. Chief among its virtues is the killer band that Parton has mostly retained from the first album, especially the remarkable Jerry Douglas on dobro and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. The ease with which these young veterans propel winners such as "Seven Bridges Road" carries over to and elevates less inspiring selections like Collective Soul's "Shine...
University Hall. "He was unduly apologetic afterward about having acted thus responsibly, and the culprits were set loose on further mischief in the service of their headlong ideals...
...witnessed occurs on the horizontal - a powerful wave moving on a broad front through time and smashing aside all kinds of sustaining or stultifying precedents (Dad in the office, Mom in the kitchen, gays in the closet...) We have abandoned the vertical (back through time) in favor of the headlong horizontal...
Bobby Kennedy--out of self-absorption, recklessness, fear of cowardice, idealism or sheer nervous energy--was a headlong plunger all his life. Toward the end of it, in June 1967, on a rafting trip down cold rapids in the Grand Canyon, Kennedy defied the river guides, who thought it was too dangerous, and threw himself into the white water to tumble wildly down through a slalom of rocks. He did this kind of thing all the time. What was he trying to prove...
...considered a shot at the Texas state senate when he was 25 but, after talking to his father, decided against it. By 1978, though, he saw a chance to run for Congress in West Texas, and it was then that he ran headlong into the thicket of being named Bush...