Word: headlong
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...truck.? Jack handed it over. The three of them were all a-giggle as they waited their turn at the scanner; it might as well have been C.S. Lewis?s wardrobe they were about to pass through. When Luci said, ?Come, Mary Grace!? the little one ran headlong to her mother, laughing...
Bernakevitch carried the puck into RPI’s zone along the right boards before running headlong into the Engineers’ defense. Adroitly sliding the puck between the first defender’s legs, Bernakevitch sped towards the net to avoid a second before quickly blasting a shot just over the top of the left corner in what proved to be the Crimson’s last best chance...
...Bush to maximize his leverage at the U.N., he needed to show that Congress was behind him. But then, Kerry argues, Bush broke his side of the deal by barely going through the motions to assemble the kind of international coalition that his father had 11 years before, stomping headlong into war, trampling valuable alliances and precedents, and then utterly botching the peace...
There's a point in this headlong novel at which Suzanne Vale (read author Carrie Fisher) finally somersaults into the Mount Doom of her dilemmas. This is not long after she realizes at last that going off the medication for her manic depression was a mistake. For one thing, that was what let her shoot at top speed, flinging one-liners all the way, to that place in her head where it seemed like a simply terrific idea--terrific!--to get a tattoo, cut off her hair and convert to Judaism, preferably Orthodox, though not before heading to Mexico with...
...rise was largely due to a shortage of cattle; ranchers had abandoned the business because of thin profits. The U.S. herd--some 96 million cattle--is at a seven-year low. Short supply had run headlong into the popularity of high-protein diets like Atkins, which promote lots of meat on your plate. And then came Washington's decision last summer to stop importing live Canadian cattle, which accounted for 7% of U.S. beef consumption. Delighted cattlemen from Texas to Montana rushed to fill the void as prices went through the roof. Choice cuts became particularly pricey, in part because...