Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overboard on Security. President Truman appointed Lilienthal head of the newly created AEC in 1946. From then on Lilienthal's diary entries become less exuberant; he had fewer triumphs and many more frustrations. After a brutal fight for Senate confirmation, thanks to McKellar's opposition, Lilienthal had great hopes of creating peaceful uses for atomic energy, but he immediately bogged down in security questions in a Washington that was nervous about atomic secrecy. Lilienthal had to take atomic-production figures to Truman on tiny slips of paper with garbled figures that only he could read, and even then...
...rearrange its cargo of dogma for the hard sailing ahead. Many Roman Catholics and Protestants feel that the primary theological task is re-translation of traditional concepts into contemporary accents, and that to toss doctrine overboard is to betray the faith. Yet an influential minority of Christian thinkers is willing to do just that. It is an unarguable axiom for the Marburg Disciples of Germany's Rudolf Bultmann that Christianity must de-mythologize-that is, translate the essential elements of the New Testament proclamation into terms that relate to man's existential conflict today, while doing away with...
...third straight race when Kurrewa lost 65 seconds by being recalled for a premature start. Then it was Sovereign's turn to bumble. Holding a neat five-length lead with only three miles to go in a rough, whitecapped sea, Sovereign spilled one of her foredeck men overboard. Kurrewa took the lead while Sovereign went fishing, poured back wind into Sovereign's sails the rest of the way, and won by 40 seconds...
...Detroit adgirl still shudders at the memory of a cruise last Christmas on the Polynesia (promptly dubbed the Polynausea), which was complete with 12-ft. waves, several broken bones, plus a passenger who went berserk and jumped over the rail. On one hairy occasion, three missionaries were washed overboard, but the only passenger who seems to have been lost permanently is Miss Sara Reiser, 70, who disappeared last month during a walk on one of the Galápagos Islands-a port of call on Burke's round-the-world cruising brigantine Yankee...
...problem now is to keep the industry from going overboard trying to make too much of a good thing. Last year, Peru processed 1,159,000 tons of fish meal from a record 6,650,000-ton catch and earned an impressive $116 million from exports. But this year there are fears of a smaller haul, with a sharp fall-off in dollars...