Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston radicals stage "Tea Party" by dressing up as Indians, boarding British ships and throwing 342 chests of tea overboard...
...from the bird sanctuary with the last rays of sunlight. The lagoon was a gentle green color set against the dramatic black silhouette of Tetiaroa. Brando pointed up to the first evening star visible in the dimming sky. A strange, almost mystical feeling pervaded, as if one could slip overboard and sink beneath the soft sea to become part of all that beauty. "Don't worry, you'd swim," Marlon laughed when I told him later about my strange impulse. "But I know exactly what you mean. It's happened to me many times...
...Harvard varsity lightweights avenged last year's man overboard loss to Navy as John Higginson's eight cruised home with its twelfth Haines Cup in 13 years, stroking through the Midshipmen and the UMass heavies on a fast, tailwind-aided Charles River on Saturday...
Last year's varsity boat did encounter some nautical competition from the midshipmen of Annapolis, in the form of a man overboard loss on the Severn River and a good scare from Navy at the Sprints. But by and large John Higginson's first boat easily motored through its opposition with a crew of sophomores and juniors...
Powell said, "You really can't go overboard in giving preference to people on scholarship...