Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detectives spend more time locked in combat with blondes than with criminals. Dragnet (alt. Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC), long a radio favorite, has become the best of the TV crime shows by tossing overboard all such TV cliches - from incendiary blondes and comic stooges to roaring gunfights and simple-Simon detection. Last week the TV Dragnet came back to the air after a summer vacation in the first of a new series of 47 filmed episodes. The suspenseful story of a man about to jump from an eighth-floor ledge, it was well acted, filmed and directed and undoubtedly Dragnet...
...Wellington harbor. On board were Dr. Davis, his New Zealand wife Lydia, and his sons John, 10, and Timothy, 5. For crew they had Neil Arrow, an artist, and Bill Donovan, who is heading for Sweden to study ceramics. They also had two cats, but one jumped overboard and the other died of seasickness...
Sailing through the dead of winter, the Miru was battered by fierce storms, 4O-ft. waves and 75-m.p.h. winds. Water and weather carried away three sea anchors, washed a compass overboard, smashed the rigging, damaged the engine and soaked the cabins. Thinking of his family, Dr. Davis was tempted to turn back. But then he thought of his seafaring ancestors, who sailed these waters in canoes centuries ago. and decided to push...
...Wall." The boat circled Helgoland, the rocky island and former fortress 28 miles off the Schleswig-Holstein coast. Guided by Pastor Spanuth, it moved toward shore and anchored 50 stadia (5.7 miles) from Helgoland. The diver dropped overboard and walked along the sandy bottom 30 feet below the surface...
...well-being . . . Fate or the grace of God which saved us in two wars . . . cannot [be] building stones for a policy . . . At a time when Europe is in the midst of . . . political and ideological currents that nobody can ignore, neutrality . . . is a thing of the past, to be chucked overboard...