Word: headlong
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...figure of speech, the Japanese Army's relay race plunged forward in such fashion that as soon as a slightly wear)' Japanese brigade had captured a Jehol city, another Japanese brigade, fresh and boiling with zeal, pressed on with the offensive, thus keeping the Chinese in ceaseless headlong flight. Even the Japanese General Staff was amazed by the utter crumpling of Jehol's defense as Chinese "generals" either deserted their troops and fled or broke out Manchukuo flags to welcome the invaders...
During a lull in the hearings Spokesman Smith suddenly opened the glass door to get a drink outside and the crowd of female clerks at the threshold fell headlong into his arms and the board room. "Hello-hello-hello!" he repeated as he shook girl after girl by the hand. Girls flocked in from all over the building. Annoyed at the delay, pompous R. F. C. Chairman Pomerene finally banged for order...
Died. Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co. (meat packing); killed instantly in a fall from a window of his apartment which he had apparently thrown open after breakfast; in Chicago. His waiting chauffeur witnessed the headlong plunge. Though his brother Charles Henry first announced that Packer Swift had been in poor health, had been planning an immediate European vacation, he later stated his brother "had been in his usual good health and spirits. . . . His affairs are in excellent condition." Packer Swift's son said: "Father was always insisting on fresh air." Second of the six able...
...rule ("the damndest rule we ever got," according to Chairman Pou of the Rules Committee) was introduced to limit debate and amendments and thus hold the rider intact. But the House swept the "gag rule" aside and in a state of revolt reminiscent of the Sales Tax fight, plunged headlong into the redrafting of the economy bill on the floor. There was no predominant leader of this latest insurrection against authority. Neither was there any leader strong enough to stop it. Different blocs kept coalescing to undo the work of the economy committee. In four confused, hysterical days the House...
...nothing had ever happened. But Mattie is moonstruck with too much trouble, and her son adds more. After his engagement to the wealthy Richards girl, he turns around and marries Bessie Casey, a poor fisherman's daughter. Mattie vaguely senses that he is repeating her own headlong mistake, but she encourages him in memory of the brief bliss she once knew. Bessie Casey, though no equal, will make a good wife. Captain Archer consoles himself with the thought that great-grand-children were what he wanted most...