Word: headlong
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...Sumner just couldn't understand it. Was this then what Harvard had come to? Sumner could feel himself beginning to sweat. If there were only some way of short-circuiting the laughter, of turning it against itself. But Sumner could see no way out, and just kept on plowing headlong through the introductory remarks that had been written...
From its outset, the papal pilgrimage had proceeded at a headlong pace. Paul's first stop was at Teheran airport in Iran, where the Pope greeted a small crowd of Iranian Roman Catholics and conferred for 30 minutes with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. It was long after midnight before the papal plane reached Dacca, where Paul stopped only long enough to deliver a message of sympathy to the stricken East Pakistanis and a contribution of $10,000 toward the relief of the starving victims of the recent cyclone and tidal wave. Even in the air, the Pope was busy...
That desire for college is far from being fulfilled. Though U.S. campuses have almost tripled their enrollment since 1950, the headlong expansion has excluded vast numbers of college-age blacks, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos and poor whites. Blacks still make up only 6.4% of U.S. undergraduates, and almost half of them attend all-black colleges. Money is obviously an obstacle: census studies show that a family with an income below $3,000 is five times less likely to include a child attending college than a family that earns $15,000 or more. But equally important is the appalling performance of many...
...hocracies. All this arises because men can no longer absorb all that is relentlessly new, and traditional institutions seem unable to encompass and interpret headlong technological change and its social consequences. Writes Toffler: "It is not simply that we do not know which goals to pursue. The trouble lies deeper. For accelerating change has made obsolete the methods by which we arrive at social goals. The technocrats do not yet understand this, and, reacting to the goals crisis in knee-jerk fashion, they reach for the tried and true methods of the past...
...last half of the twelfth, the Reds' Pete Rose singled, advanced to second, and then came barreling for home on a single to centerfield by the Cubs' Jim Hickman. His way blocked by the Indians' Ray Fosse, Rose hurtled headlong into the burly catcher, knocked him into a somersault and landed splat on the plate for the winning run. "If I had slid," Rose said after the National League's 5-to-4 victory, "I would have broken both legs." As it was, Rose suffered a bruised thigh and Fosse a severely wrenched shoulder-injuries that...