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• s  with undue hurry and confusion
  a pell-mell dash for the train
• r  in a wild or reckless manner
  running pell-mell up the stairs

• His interest was sparked when he was a student at Harvard, studying with the legendary geochemist Roger Revelle, who realized that humanity's pell-mell burning of fossil fuels .
• Our pell-mell 20th century wasted no time in sounding its characteristic theme in the arts.
• Behind the exodus is the fact that Strongman Premier Ne Win, driving pell-mell along his "Burmese road to Socialism," has nationalized all small businesses, banks and warehouses .

• helter-skelter
• harum-scarum

News & Articles

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• Shoe Gaze: Mary Katrantzou’s Trompe-L’oeil Pumps
  These satin pumps by London wunderkind Mary Katrantzou feature digitally printed sequins, pearls, and crystals thrown pell-mell all around their pointed toes. With the pumps' bright-sky-blue color punctuated with hits of hyper pink, they're the perfect opportunity to indulge your girlier side this spring. Mary Katrantzou + Gianvito Rossi Lisa Ponker ... More »        
  March 27, 2014 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Dianne Feinstein in DesMoinesRegister.com
  Something needs to be done,said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee. "The presidential nominating process is too important to our democracy to allow the pell-mell scramble to continue."
• Fanny Burney in guardian.co.uk
  Her fears were so great of the horror of a circle, from the ceremony and awe which it produced,said the novelist Fanny Burney, "that she pushed all the small sofas, as well as the chairs, pell-mell about the apartments, so as not to leave...