Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second later it plunged into the sea and exploded in a great sheet of jagged white fire. Flaming debris smoked and crackled on the black water. While the emergency team went to work, the carrier continued on its course. There was no confusion. From amidships, men threw float lights overboard as the still-blazing crust of the crashed Corsair slid past. On the bridge, Captain William Gallery, the Princeton's commander, swore stoutly...
Richard W. Eliott, Jr. 2G, president of the local Christian Science Organization, said he is "in favor" of the plan, but warned that such a program might go overboard and "create much unhappiness if the preacher used it as a vehicle for his own religion...
Plan Might Go Overboard...
...London thinking about life and trying to decide what to do with his own. At 23, Edward Wyllis Scripps was already city editor of his brother's Detroit Evening News, but that night he decided that it was folly to work for anybody but himself. He also threw overboard the idea that all men were created equal: "Sadly I acknowledged to myself that the world was composed of a very small class of slave drivers and a very, very large class of slaves...
...first went to Naval Lieut. Charles Lucas in 1856 for pitching overboard a live shell during the Crimean War. Cast from the bronze of captured cannon, the V.C. entitles enlisted recipients who survive to a lifetime stipend of ?10 annually, a salute from officers...