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...shipping, and English interference with the freedom of the seas. In principle we denied at that time the legality of the whole British blockade. We insisted on our rights as neutral to trade with both sides as much as or little as we pleased, an insistence that naturally ran headlong into British, determination to starve out Germany. This policy could not succeed unless backed by the force, and as a result the British gradually wore it away, using each incident to chip off a little more of the foundation on which we built the structure, until the whole thing collapsed...
...morning, when she was late, Jessie's mother drove her to the station. As the train was pulling out, she raced headlong across the platform, slipped, plunged forward. Her mother screamed as the wheels of the train ground over...
...well when he dispatched a handsome young officer to comfort Eugénie. "Adieu," he writes in a last letter. ". . . Kiss my sons -may they not have the ardent soul of their father! They would be, like him, the victims of men, glory, and love!" Then Clisson "flung himself headlong into the mèlée, and expired, pierced with a thousand blows...
...seized them and gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle...
...Saarbrücken Sector-"rich industrial prize," it was called in those first headlong days-penetration was between three-quarters of a mile and one mile and three-quarters. The most advanced troops were still three-quarters of a mile from Saarbrücken...