Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence could ignore it. So the Connecticut Courant, in Hartford, boldly displayed the item: "We hear from Boston that last Thursday evening, between 300 and 400 Boxes of the celebrated East India TEA, by some ACCIDENT! which happened in an attempt to get it on Shore, fell overboard-That the Boxes burst open and the Tea was swallowed up by the vast Abyss...
...final confrontation, the man throws the knife overboard and knocks the boy (who has protested that he can't swim)in after it. The lad disappears and the wife, convinced that he has drowned, berates her husband as a murderer and a coward. The man, beaten and scared, leaves the boat and swims for shore. From behind a buoy, where he has been hiding, the boy swims back to the boat and triumphantly seduces the wife...
...69th. Sometimes tender, sometimes turgid figurative sculpture by a classically inspired New Yorker who lives in Rome. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell overboard) are full of frivolous immediacy. Through...
...Overboard. Now that his newest brainchild has proved such a prodigy, Sonar Engineer Edwin Turner, 64, plans to deliver two prototypes to the Navy for further trials and then retire. He stresses that Doppler sonar is a supplement, not a replacement for radar and other modern navigational aids. It can function properly only in well-charted waters or far at sea, where the course picked out by its pen is not likely to run into unexpected obstacles. The Navy already has a built-in need for such a device on many of its ships, and along the world...
...most dramatic test of the new navigator last week, a sailor-sized, life-jacketed dummy nicknamed "Oscar" was pitched off the stern. At the shout "Man overboard!", the lieutenant in the hold marked the chart and began barking commands. When the red line had curved back on itself, there was Oscar, 10 yds. to port, in more danger of being run down than drowned...