Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peevishly and stopped dead. The mechanic had instantly scrambled out to mend it, but returned at once to the cockpit. With twelve people and their baggage aboard the ship was dropping too fast. Pilot Dinsmore had glided into the choppy sea as best he could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad...
...Occidentals on board after a hand to hand fight with the Chinese. General Yang's well directed artillery fire made it impossible to board the Wantung, but the British warships stood by at a distance and picked up the Wantung's crew and passengers who leaped overboard and all swam to safety despite the pot-shotting of Chinese riflemen. The British ships then withdrew out of range of the shore artillery and bombarded Wanhsien, a city of 150,000 population, until fires broke out in every quarter and completed the destruction. Three British officers and four British seamen...
...naked on pillows in my rowboat one morning last week, out on the Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France-a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays-i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive by sharks last month. I rowed for shore. The brutes...
...principle of the oil-compression engine was worked out by Engineer Rudolf Diesel (1857-1913) of Germany, who fell overboard from an Antwerp-Harwich mail steamer and was drowned in 1913, before the full possibilities of his work had been realized...
...this time I saw nobody else. There were 20 men in the officers' quarters (where the submarine was struck). I rushed to the ladder of the conning tower. There were two men ahead of me. Water was already splashing when I got to the top. I was washed overboard as soon as I got out. I was picked up by a lifeboat of the City of Rome, which . . . steamed away for Boston in forty-five minutes...