Word: headlong
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...Fast today sounds philosophical almost to the point of complacency, the story of his own life and the stories of many of his books' heroes have been tales of fighters. Lavette's response to any problem is to charge headlong into it. In Fast's fictionalized biography Citizen Tom Paine (1943), Thomas Paine continues to work for the Revolution after putting out his pamphlet Common Sense, and he dies friendless after he goes on to criticize the new government his efforts have helped to establish. The American (1946) is a fictionalized biography of John P. Altgeld, a poor Illinois farm...
Translator Robert Conquest has faithfully rendered the headlong pace of the poem...
BOTH PLAYS are plagued by similar tendencies, the casts rushing headlong against Pinter's rigorously controlled pace. It is as though even the performers cannot bear the strain and tension that are essential to the drama. Moments of dramatic explosion are lost in the relentless hurry of these productions. Since the tempo remains unvaried, characters and relationships aren't allowed to develop and the evening tends towards monotony...
...short pass from Kubacki and raced across the field for a 70-yard score. Too little, too late, too bad. Brown ran out the clock in its own territory, and the fate was sealed. Harvard will now chase after a share of the Ivy title as Brown moves headlong into a two-game finale that could very well bring the first football championship ever into Providence's waiting hands...
There is no better example of our constitutional system of checks and balances than Mr. Ford's use of the veto to curb the Democratic Congress's headlong race toward socialism...