Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eaton, in attacking U.S. friends of Moscow, goes overboard in criticism of those Americans who remember with gratitude Russia's wartime sacrifices. "The war is over," says Eaton, "we owe nothing to Russia today...
...unexpectedly, the pesky Russians are not yet overboard on the idea. The Soviet delegation would like first to see a more definitive decision on principles. Concretely, the Russian military will press for equal contributions in all categories by all the signatory powers, and may very well win its point...
...passengers clawed and pummeled the sailors, the ship zigzagged through converging Navy craft. Finally the Arlosoroff scraped aground, just 100 yards off Bat Galim, Haifa's seashore suburb. Behind the barbed wire on the beach, hundreds of Jews waved handkerchiefs at the immigrants, cheered as a dozen leaped overboard and struggled ashore-to certain capture. On the ship the fight continued...
Down in the Mouth. In Burns Lake, B.C., Rancher Joe Corbett, out boating, lost his false teeth overboard, six years later had his second set stolen by a rat, got them back, two months later swallowed them...
With each stroke of the hammer Wyatt hit his own thumb. He quarreled with other agencies, ran afoul of the powerful real estate lobby. Congress had backed down on price ceilings, had failed to enact the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill for low-cost housing. Wyatt went overboard for prefabricated homes, which would use vast quantities of still-scarce sheet steel. When he asked RFC to underwrite this assembly-line program he bumped smack into RFC's roly-poly George Allen (TIME...