Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairs in its stern cockpit, and installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...
...bluffs, brandishing their bayonets, occupied the island and, temporarily at least, Admiral Reeves appeared to be in command of all Central American waters. The mock destruction and slaughter had been terrific. Actually, the Fleet maneuvers had not been carried out without some real losses. One man had fallen overboard from the aircraft carrier Lexington, drowned. Another had been
...wish to say that no one on the yacht took up any matter of business or politics with the President. If he had tried, I think I would have thrown him overboard...
...Pennsylvania regular Republican machine, supposedly demoralized, had functioned amazingly well. In only one case, where a man was deliberately thrown overboard, did the regular Republican Congressional candidates fail to win renomination. In the opinion of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, the G. O. P. organization had worked too well. "What the rank and file of the normally Republican voters want is new blood, new leadership," it complained, "rather than a return to the old policies and old methods...
...driver's skill. Tennes' cockleshell Hootnanny VI had a good motor but his was by far the best driving in the series. When he crossed the finish line in the final race, his brother Monty and his two mechanics were so joyfully excited that they fell overboard from their skiff. Said young Tennes, in a hurry to leave Palm Beach and get back to college: "It was a great race." Outboard races were not the only ones Palm Beach had to get excited about last week. For the regatta, Italy had sent over three boats...