Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about average age for that specialist known as a cocaine diver. He is darker skinned than most Colombians and a good swimmer, both characteristics common to people from the Buenaventura coastal area where he was born. His role is to retrieve a 4-lb. waterproof bag of cocaine dumped overboard from a Grancolombiana line freighter docked at the Atlantic Avenue wharf in Brooklyn. He works at night, wearing a black wetsuit, and he is very cautious. A similar diver, Carlos Riascos, had his throat slit and body dumped in the river as he clambered ashore with his catch. Restrepo...
...There, in a 30-second television commercial, was the usually dapper and composed Senator Charles Percy of Illinois looking haggard and close to tears. Staring straight into the camera, the onetime presidential aspirant implored millions of unseen viewers: "I got your message and you're right. Washington has gone overboard, and I'm sure that I've made my share of mistakes, but your priorities are mine too. Stop the waste. Cut the spending...
...Egyptian tram conductor taught him something else about the tenuous meetings of East and West. He got it all down in A Passage to India (1924), an unquestioned masterpiece. The novel's satiric anti-colonialism riled many; British civil servants sailing out to India threw the book overboard. Some of Forster's acid observations on the Raj were effectively challenged, but the art of the novel was beyond refutation. It sang with the poetry of its Indian settings, the hope that British and Indians could only connect. Its echoing conclusion came from the earth...
WHILE IT IS TRUE that any University affair featuring Kennedys, senators and free liquor has to be limited, the K-School went overboard. Sen. John C. Culver '54 (D-Iowa) seemed surprised by the dress requirement at the mixer--he ran out to rent a tuxedo in Porter Square...
Stephen Alter is 21 years old, just out of Yale, and his first published novel strolls with the kind of sweet prose most fiction writers never get near. Like most writers he has structural problems, and he goes overboard sometimes, but this kid has written one hell of a good book...