Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...that the resolutions were not to be interpreted as a personal victory for Beck. Growled Jimmy Hoffa, Teamster boss in the Central States: "I don't think anybody won a victory." If Dave Beck had been the only top Teamster in trouble, the others might have dumped him overboard. But with Central Conference Chairman Hoffa facing federal charges of conspiracy and bribery and with Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster thickly splashed with scandal, the Teamsters decided to put up a united front-even if it was only a front...
Died. Freeman Wills Crofts, 77, British railroad engineer who first tinkered, during a 1919 illness, with a detective novel (The Cask) that eventually sold 100,000 copies, turned to full-time writing in 1929 and produced roughly a book a year thereafter (Inspector French's Greatest Case; Man Overboard), most featuring Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard; in Worthing, England...
...minded George D. (for David) Aiken, 64, was something of a "Modern Republican" in the U.S. Senate before Dwight D. (for David) Eisenhower made bird colonel. Last week Aiken applauded the politics represented by the President's favorite ''Modern Republican" term, but favored throwing the term overboard. "It is misleading and is badly misused," Aiken told the Women's National Republican Club in Manhattan. "It irritates a lot of good people...
...agent stepped back to chat. Just as the tourists looked up, they were attacked and beaten to death with a baseball bat and a length of chain. The guests were stripped of money and about $18,000 in jewels, their bodies wrapped in chains. Then the hosts dumped them overboard and sailed home...