Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cleared it, came down with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later, few miles away, the rain-sogged City of Omaha fouled a farmer's fence, spilled her crew to the ground. Army No. 1, an early favorite, downed next at 600 mi. after...
Barbara learned what she could about medicine in a year, knocked difficulty after difficulty flat. The small boat that was taking her ashore at São Maharo nearly foundered. The sailors threw overboard her two truckloads of supplies and her bag of clothes, then turned and rowed back for their ship. But Barbara was going in the other direction. She dived from the teetering gunwale and began swimming for the dark beach...
Last week Harold Foard returned to Peru alone with a letter. Two weeks after they left their Indian porters, the explorers' collapsible boat smashed up in some rapids. Overboard went duffle bags & data. The two men were alone in a steaming, fever-soaked jungle where only the birds and the tops of the writhing vines saw the sun. Thomas Walsh died in his friend's arms and was buried in a narrow trench scooped out of the rotten ground. Harold Foard was picked up by Indians and carried on to Monzon, Peru. The letter he carried said...
...eats into the heart, it reduces the brain to a sort of pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon watches a cancan dance, fascinated, repulsed, wavering. His return a day later results in his catching syphilis. He would drown himself, but he is too weak to leap overboard. The end comes when the captain himself, sympathetic, smothers him in his great coat...
...priest advances only feeble opposition, does not use the dialectic resources of the Church. When Joel calls life "an eddy in the Second Law of Thermodynamics'' the priest does not draw attention to the Virgin Birth. But the scientist's ratiocinations leave him unconvinced. When the anchor-chain grates overboard at Port Said, Joel finds the out-argued priest sticking to his divine guns still. Joel cannot figure him out. Also he sweats less than Joel, does not seem to mind the stewing heat. He is a queer fish too. Kamongo is one of the two April choices...