Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon emerged and, in an unheard-of gesture in South Korea, sent Winner Park congratulations and flowers. Adding to Park's worries is a National Assembly election scheduled for next month, which his Democratic-Republican Party will be hard pressed to win. Neither is he expected to go overboard in any new policies of "independence" from the U.S. South Korea's struggling economy is beset by inflation that has hiked prices 40% in the past year, and Washington aid dollars, which came to $344.4 million in fiscal 1962, finance almost half the national budget. Besides, Communist North Korea...
Hero of Goldwyn's sea saga was Albatross Owner Ira E. Dowd, president of American Hydrofoil Lines. During a subsequent stop in the East River, flagged down by a Coast Guard patrol boat, Dowd clambered topside to report details of the rescue, lost his footing and slipped overboard. It was 9:55 a.m. when the Albatross spewed her tardy commuters into Wall Street, 45 minutes late. All declared themselves staunchly in favor of hydrofoil commuting, though it takes nearly as long and costs approximately three times more ($100 a month) than commuting from Port Washington via the overland route...
...there is none. In 1962, there were 3,897 pleasure vessels involved in 3,085 accidents reported to the Coast Guard, resulting in 1,055 deaths from drowning and other kinds of accidents, plus 977 nonfatal injuries. Capsizing accounted for 42% of the total fatalities; 22% of them fell overboard, 12% drowned from a sinking...
...February 1, 1870, James recorded in his diary: "Today I about touched bottom, and perceive plainly that I must face the choice with open eyes: shall I Frankly throw the moral business overboard, as one unsuited to my innate aptitudes, or shall I follow it and it alone, making everything else merely stuff for it? I will give the latter alternative a fair trial. Who knows but the moral interest may become developed...
...been tested successfully in both fresh and salt water since 1960. About 70? buys 12 to 16 pieces of dry bait-sized shrimp, which needs only water to make it tasty again. > For scuba-ho underwater photographers: a new all-weather camera, Nikon's Nikonos. Drop it overboard, drag it through sand and mud, leave it out in rain and spray, or shoot the wonders of the deep as far as 164 ft. down without an extra housing. Taking 35-mm. film and with an /2.5 Nikkor lens, the Nikonos will sell for approximately...