Word: headlong
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...headlong clatter of A Number of Things is occasionally slowed by pages of travel-book writing, and the jokes are sometimes tasteless as well as brash. Sir Manfred Schulz, for instance, and his "Vot's dat?" wife seem as xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted...
...banned his works. But Spain's artistic roots go deep. Last week in two major exhibits in Manhattan-one at the Museum of Modern Art, the other at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-U.S. gallerygoers could see that the heirs of Goya and El Greco had plunged headlong into their own brand of abstract expressionism...
Encouraged by a Cuban Roman Catholic pastoral warning of Communism "within the gates," the rebels expect Castro's headlong reform to collapse, bringing the regime down with it. It is a remote prospect; in the predictable future, the U.S. apparently will just have to get along with, without giving in to, the truculent neighbor who now presides over a people the U.S. once thought its good friend...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew home from Washington last week and ran headlong into a thunderhead of trouble...
West Germany's astonishing postwar prosperity showed no signs of slackening its headlong pace in 1959, according to figures released last week in Bonn. As the nation's gross national product rose 6.4% to $59 billion, there were many soaring statistics...