Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress often showed better sense than Harry Truman in his requests, and sometimes it saved him later embarrassment. When he asked for an anti-inflation program (including wage & price controls, Government authority to build steel plants) at a time when deflation was obviously in progress, Congress brusquely threw it overboard, lock, stock & barrel. His demand for $4 billion in new taxes was similarly ignored; so was his request for $800 million for universal military training...
...report from Trieste revealed that Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, about to take a motor launch from Pola to Fasana on the Adriatic, waited on the dock while advance men made a security check. Sure enough, they found and heaved overboard a time bomb which had been strategically hidden under the marshal's seat...
Menke, whose three brothers help him run the Goldenrod, regularly rejects such schemes as turning the old boat into a nightclub. When business slumps, he says, "you can always throw a line overboard and catch a mess of catfish . . . Some day, maybe, we'll take her down the river again. Maybe next spring...
...liner Italia steamed into New York harbor last week with some unwanted cargo-six stowaways and a wayward Philadelphia war veteran named George Saddich. Saddich, complained Captain Ugo Chinca, had taken to throwing things overboard: ten fire hoses, six fancy ashtrays, two fire extinguishers, ten 50-lb. potted laurel trees, several dishes-and himself. Of all these, only Saddich was recovered from...
They managed a judicial air. Despite management's worst fears, they had not gone overboard for the cause of labor. They had, for example, upheld the right of the separate states to pass laws against closed shops; they had sternly and righteously reminded John L. Lewis of the majesty of the law, upheld his conviction for contempt...