Word: headlong
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...their watches while waiting for a bus. As the needle climbs, the adrenaline begins to flow faster. We fuss with our equipment, checking again the closures on jumpsuits, the buckles on parachute harnesses, the positions of rip cords on the pilot chutes that will deploy canopies and break our headlong fall to earth...
...subtlety: he is a youthful ruler of sensitive and cunning intelligence. Howard fills the role of Antony, which is something like filling the sails of a galleon. His willful ness, his rages, sarcasm, generosity and reluctant self-knowledge are all here. When Antony's defeats are rushing headlong at him, Howard conveys an eerie lightheadedness that sums up a man who has lost the balance of the world...
...Martyn Green, have been for a quarter century the province of John Reed, who remains a lively and comical performer, despite the excessive doffing and donning of pince-nez. The nightmare number is the greatest of all the G. &. S. patter songs; and Reed, in the encore, increases the headlong tempo beyond what one would think the limit of possibility. At the end of the evening, however, I see no excuse for Reed's electing to change the single word that resolves the plot from Gilbert's doesn't to the ungrammatical...
...good deal more to be proud of. In his 16th major league season, "Charlie Hustle," the man of the headfirst slide, has plunged headlong into the record books, taking with him a new mark for consecutive-game hitting streaks by modern-era National Leaguers. Last week Rose surpassed Tommy Holmes' 37-game record, set in 1945. Then, tackling the American League, he moved past Ty Cobb (40 in 1911) and tied George Sisler (41 in 1922) in pursuit of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game major league record...
...female's two ovaries may contribute an ovum. Then the egg enters the nearby fallopian tube. If coitus has taken place, the egg will shortly run into a swarm of tailed sperm that have managed, like salmon battling upstream, to fight their way into this passageway. In a dramatic headlong plunge, a single sperm will penetrate the waiting ovum's outer layer, its 23 chromosomes joining the egg's 23. That produces the full complement of 46 chromosomes, which contain all the genetic instructions necessary to produce a complete human being...