Word: headlong
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...early, Penny using barrel staves with canning-jar rubber bands nailed on for bindings, Betsy with a pair of toy skis. Both grew deadly serious about skiing, wangled time off from high school to attend meets. Both were good enough to make the 1956 Oympic team, where they ran headlong into the great European skiers. Working out on a slalom slope in Italy, they were passed by the French women's team. "They flashed by us like jet planes," Penny recalls. "Betsy and I just looked at each other, speechless. We thought we should have stayed at home." Neither...
...never stops his headlong pace to speak or idle with his office staff, lunches hurriedly in the executive dining room before closeting himself for the afternoon with executives to discuss problems ("Let's start from the Garden of Eden and work this through"). Each evening he takes home a portfolio of work-and expects other G.E. executives to do the same...
Radio signals of the 1 1/2-ton projectile faded out as it passed the 370,960-mile mark and its 62nd hour aloft, in a headlong dash from the earth into man's greatest conquest of space...
...pell-mell herding of millions into communes was threatening to produce a resistance that might cause an even less ambitious program to founder. So Mao and his colleagues were compelled to slow up. But they have yet found no other way to achieve their headlong ambitions...
Northern Democrats called Dwight Eisenhower a doddering old conservative when, during the 1958 campaign, he declared that liberal Democrats were headlong "spenders." But last week, with the election and Democratic victory well in the bag, Washington was doing a double take at a liberal spending program that proved that Ike had been guilty of understatement...