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...those years, Headmaster Lucas didn't change much. Though he became a canon of his cathedral and assistant to the Bishop of Washington, he never learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman," said...
...headlong way, television had tromped on many a sensitive toe. Last week it heard some anguished cries...
After the war, the Porters plunged headlong into Europe's melting pot of millionaires and marquises. They bought a $250,000 house in Paris, complete with kidskin chairs, zebra rugs and a room decorated in platinum leaf, but the house was often only a place from which mail was forwarded to the English countryside, Antibes, Venice, Florence, Siena, and the Duke of Alba's palaces in Seville and Madrid. In 1923, when Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, he began renting Venetian palaces...
Shortly after the start of the second stanza Jack Carman slid head first into the boards behind the Northeastern goal and was put out of action for the rest of the period. Later, wing Bill Garrity and Huskie Captain Deke Kerrivan astounded the crowd with twenty foot headlong slides into the boards...
...Israeli military campaign had been a brilliant, hard-won success, highlighted by a fast three-day invasion of Egypt. Driving down the Egyptian right flank (after a feint at Gaza on the coast), the Israeli forces plunged headlong into Egypt and fought their way to El Arish, over 50 miles behind the frontier...