Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deteriorating public schools. But most Chicagoans hold an abiding admiration for Daley and went overwhelmingly for the status quo. Explained former State's Attorney Ben Adamowski, a onetime critic who endorsed Daley this time: "When the ship is in trouble, you don't throw an experienced captain overboard." Daley carried 47 of the city's 50 wards, piling up 432,224 votes in the unofficial count to 217,764 for his chief opponent, Independent Democrat William Singer, who was handicapped by his youth (34) and inexperience. Farther behind were black State Senator Richard Newhouse with...
...seems vaguely ashamed of itself; its hesitance is the product of defensiveness. Director Lindsay Davis contents himself with drabness in order to escape being accused of outrageousness or extravagance; the cast camps in order to escape being accused of taking itself too seriously. If only they relaxed and went overboard once in a while, everyone might have more fun--since fun, nowadays, is the only conceivable thing Gilbert and Sullivan are good...
...month-long election recess, Congress last week rushed to clear the decks-and in a few instances, did so by heaving worthwhile measures overboard. As expected, it approved a monumental reform in the financing of Presidential campaigns, providing up to $20 million in public funds for major candidates...
...wilds of the Canadian sub-Arctic. And he told me about a program that he had started in 1961 through which people spent summers in these towns, teaching vital skills that no one up there knew how to teach. Like swimming. Every year, several fishermen die when they fall overboard five feet from land and are unable to swim to save themselves. Because they've never learned, because the water is so cold...
...kept requesting sea duty, and in a year he got his wish. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Monterey in the South Pacific. Although he was under enemy fire in several major battles, his closest brush with death came during a typhoon that nearly washed him overboard; he was saved by landing on a catwalk beneath him. The Monterey was a "lucky" ship, said Ford...