Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Muscle. While all this sounded good-as the Alianza's promises have all along-the Administration's performance in Latin American policy continued to raise questions. Word leaked that Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann told the U.S. ambassadors that the Administration planned to jettison as ineffective the U.S. policy of withholding diplomatic recognition and economic aid from new military regimes that take power by force. In the past three years, six Latin American governments-Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Honduras-have been overthrown by military coups. And in every case, temporary U.S. nonrecognition...
...will be forced to jettison much of its ramshackle planning structure...
Tied to the Anchor. British law stipulated that a ship could not be held unless caught with slaves actually aboard. If chased, hard-pressed slavers often ran just long enough to kill and jettison their human cargo. One British slaver, Captain Homans of the brig Brillante, was caught at nightfall. Reportedly he tied 600 slaves to the links in his anchor chain, which was loosely lashed alongside. When, at dawn, he saw that escape was impossible, the anchor-and the human evidence-was sent rattling into the deep...
...Jettison the cargo...
...take-off and how his plane had staggered into the air with the outboard wing panels folded up, he could not say. But there was no time to speculate. He rammed the throttle home and clawed for altitude. At 500 ft. he circled cautiously until he could jettison his fuel, then landed with his wingtips still folded...