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...accused McCarthy of "hit & run" tactics, of a "cavalier disregard for facts," of "twisting, coloring, perverting and distorting" the truth, of a "campaign of vilification against this committee probably unparalleled in the history of congressional investigations." "Starting with nothing," it stated, "Senator McCarthy plunged headlong forward, desperately seeking to develop some information which, colored with distortion and fanned by a blaze of bias, would forestall a day of reckoning...
From then on, Jeremiah rushes headlong to disaster-an elaborate venture into murder, his apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...
...studio jobs. Though the team was at first sneered at as the only one "where the horses are better bred than the men," its intense, fearless little captain drove it to win the respect of its opponents and the hospitality of Pasadena's uppity Midwick Country Club. Meanwhile, headlong Darryl Zanuck became a two-goal player at the price of such injuries as a smashed nose and a broken hand...
...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...blind, headlong years before 1938, Streit wrote his ideas into a book. Before he was through, he had worked out in careful detail the apparatus of a federal government of democracies (see chart). The executive power under the Streit plan would be held by a board of three men chosen by popular vote and two men chosen by a Senate and a House of Deputies. The Deputies would be elected by popular vote; each country would elect two Senators; countries of over 25 million would be allowed more...