Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seconded Florida's James Haley: "Load a boat full of them and take them 500 miles out into the ocean and handcuff them, chain the anchor around their necks and throw them overboard...
...Audubon Society set out in a three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black-footed albatrosses...
Swans & Minarets. Artists and critics went overboard, comparing Queen's primitive tapestries to Klee, Picasso and the works of the Sienese quattrocento masters. Couture houses deluged her with scraps of silks and satins. Last month another 38 of her newer, brighter works went on display. Buyers snapped up all but ten that Kalman deliberately held back, and last week gallerygoers were still flocking to see the remaining few. Movie Actress Joanne Woodward became a Queen collector...
...ancient Greeks dreaded the sudden squalls of the wine-dark Aegean Sea, where even the mighty Odysseus was sometimes washed overboard during his voyages. Modern Greeks are less superstitious. Despite gale warnings one evening last week, Captain Emmanuel Vernikos, 50, decided not to delay the departure of the Heraklion, his 8,900-ton auto-and-passenger ferry on its scheduled thrice-weekly 190-mile crossing from the Cretan city of Canea to Piraeus, Athens' port on the Greek mainland...
...They've gone overboard," sniffs one professor. "Faculty meetings have been sounding like the old Oxford Movement meetings, everyone sitting around and telling their sins," complains another. "Well, we haven't been turning out such disastrous students. They're the leaders of American medicine...