Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, went down last week to seagirt Cornwall, where he often goes sailing. There, in a luncheon speech, Socialist Shawcross made a defiant announcement: Britain has no intention of tossing overboard her small but growing trade with Iron Curtain countries, regardless of what the U.S. Congress says or does...
...flurry. Women hung their clothes out to dry on a line running from mast to smokestack, crewmen tested ropes and slapped on final licks of paint, children swarmed everywhere, while men struggled to set up a wire screen at the ship's sides to keep them from falling overboard...
...thrown to him, but before the crippled L'Apache could come about and work back to the spot, Sierks was out of sight in the vastness of the Pacific. Six nearby yachts converged on the area when they heard L'Apache radio the shocking message: "Man overboard!" From Honolulu, 800 miles away, the Navy sent ships to the manhunt: an escort carrier, four destroyers, three destroyer escorts. An airrescue B-17 droned out from the Army's Hickam Field to join in the search...
...dory and sent him swimming for his life through a sea full of sharks. Another time, his broken boat was kept afloat like a surfboard as the whale dragged it along at top speed at the end of a harpoon line. On a third occasion, young Harry was bounced overboard into a school of whales, which amused themselves by playing a none-too-gentle form of soccer with Harry as the ball...
...mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange new world, where parrots bite radio aerials and a waiting breakfast is picked off the decks at daybreak. Unless...