Word: headlong
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...headlong pursuit by the Allied armies had all but wiped the Germans from the soil of France. They still held out desperately in the ports, determined to hamstring Allied supply to the bitter end. In tattered remnants of once-proud divisions they still fought bitter pocket skirmishes...
...attack, and Lord Louis did not say why.) The Japs "fortunately played into our hands," he said, by launching the invasion of Manipur. That cost the enemy 22,000 dead. This week the British were well over the border into Burma, the disease-ridden Japs in headlong flight...
...Other millions were squandered by duplications in the construction of bases." Although the Great Lakes Training Station might have accommodated both Army and Navy, "the Army rushed into Chicago and bought up hotels in a manner that can only be described as headlong...
...Headlong "Bull" Halsey had forged a powerful weapon in the Solomons, had wielded it with skill, daring, many sulfurous asides (a public-relations officer had finally been assigned to clean up his bullish predictions, screen his football-field bombast). Now once again he would have a chance to forge a weapon, drive it to the heart of the Japanese empire...
...commands of Nimitz and MacArthur (under both of whom he had worked) had joined. Next job for "Bull" Halsey, one of only three four-star admirals in the Pacific,* is still a layman's guess. A good bet: it will be another fighting job in the Pacific. Headlong Admiral Halsey neither has nor cultivates any genius for riding a desk...