Word: headlong
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Neither side had rushed headlong into combat. Both knew that the outcome would almost certainly depend on whether the regular Guatemalan army, some 6,000 strong and not at all Communist, stuck by the government or swung over to the anti-Communist cause. But whether the Guatemalan clash swelled into bitter and prolonged civil bloodshed or petered out in anticlimax and frustration, the issue was nonetheless clearly drawn. Guatemala, in its special way, was a small-scale sequel to Korea and Indo-China. and the world knew it. Even the United Nations Security Council stirred into action; it held...
...rostrum. He celebrated his 21st birthday by hiring a barge and floating a party down the Isis. Oxonians were both so outraged and fascinated by his eccentricities that they burned him in effigy-in a plum-colored suit. In mocking outrage, Tynan got a car and drove headlong through the bonfire...
...offense (now long outlawed) that cut through defenses like a bulldozer. Pudge devised the classic counter-maneuver: "As the wedge formed, I backed away to get a running start, put on full steam ahead, took off like a broad jumper, knees doubled up, and soared." When soaring Pudge crashed headlong into the man leading the V, the wedge disintegrated...
...rushing headlong...
Madrid's political and art circles were shaken. Any comparison between "before" and "after" should conclude with words of praise for "after" in today's Spain. Infuriated composers were only too happy to plunge the matter headlong into politics. Even blind Maestro Joaquin Rodrigo, the only Falangist composer esteemed by Argenta, wrote: "Argenta is definitely wrong. A good Spaniard has the duty as a musician and comrade to keep faith in the music of his country...