Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When President Nixon went overboard with Watergate, he took a lot of his former aides over the side with him. Although they plunged into heavy seas, most of them are now treading water with surprising buoyancy. Some notable examples...
...monotony and the impatience sometimes caused accidents. Carl Gottlieb fell overboard and was nearly decapitated by the boat's propellers. About to duplicate Rizzo's feat-minus the presence of real sharks-Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in his cage. Wearing a steel-and-leather corset for protection, Shaw spent two days being ingested by Bruce. Roy Scheider took no chances for his own moment of truth, which was to take place in the cabin of the sinking ship. He kept his own hammers and axes close at hand in case the effects men did not move fast enough...
...others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships, discarded like pop-top beer cans to make room for later-arriving choppers...
...varsity has the first-seed honors despite its man-overboard loss to Navy. But the traditionally cautious Higginson seems confident with his crews' prospects. "We're pretty well prepared and the Princeton course is slightly more fair than Worcester," he said...
...never resort to such terms myself. I am, in fact, consistently sympathetic to the Chinese throughout. It is only the media I portray as going overboard. Allen Drury San Rafael, Calif...