Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard until I read the CRIMSON editorial on the "plight of the commuter." Now I find that for three years I have been a member of the College Skid Row. Although probably every Dudley man appreciates the CRIMSON'S support for increased commuter facilities, the CRIMSON has again gone overboard in exaggeration...
...dusk Saturday afternoon when the varsity heavy coxswain Pete Milton called "Way Enough" and the Crimson oarsmen slumped on their oars after beating M.I.T. and Boston University by two lengths on the Charles River. A girl in shorts and a blue shirt fell overboard from the excursion boat "Let's Go," perhaps from enthusiasm over the crew's first victory of the season, or perhaps for other reasons. At any rate, she and the majority of the 1,200 spectators gathered by the M.I.T. boathouse could agree with varsity coach Harvey Love that the crew had rowed well...
Overall, the Government's controls kept the economy within the speed limits. Re-tall prices and the cost of living remained virtually at the 1954 level. Furthermore, few consumers went overboard into debt...
...admission of past mistakes and self-censure." Leniency toward Sun also served to reassure U.S. and overseas Chinese opinion, which holds Sun in high esteem and might have wondered at the implications for Nationalist China's future had so able, senior and "Western-minded" a leader been tossed overboard. Much cheered by the verdict, General Sun called last week on Vice President Chen Cheng, the commission chairman, to offer his thanks and to remind the Vice President that he is an engineer (Purdue '23) as well as a military man (V.M.I. '27). Sun's likely next...
...give the final dash to his fancy sport shirt, cardigan and chic knickerbockers, Togliatti sported a daring pair of patrician Argyle stockings. Hooted Rome's weekly Il Borghese: "They are stockings from the window of Old England [a posh Roman haberdashery]. By wearing them, Togliatti has definitely thrown overboard the 'poor man' tradition of Italian social-Communism . . . [He] is a petit bourgeois...