Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's La Presse, the main French-language daily. Not all that thick a newspaper, it still manages to go overboard on its hockey coverage. The equivalent would be The New York Times running five full pages of hockey news each...
...would be going overboard to call these two moves an onslaught of censorship or suppression of student freedom; both activities come technically under University control, and the University has a right to handle its own public relations. Yet the actions do signify the demise of an admirable trait perhaps unique to Harvard: the confidence in the institution itself to allow unscreened public displays, and trust in the undergraduates to make them. Harvard's image is strong enough that one student group's tasteless jokes will not tarnish it. The percentage of students admitted who do opt to come to Harvard...
Band member Fric Corwin '85 called the editing "excessive," adding that Epps had gone a little overboard...
...July 27, 1981, Robert Granberg and two friends set out from his home in Staten Island, N.Y., on a fishing trip. At a dock in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., they bought bait and rented a weathered 15-foot rowboat with a small outboard engine. "I hope none of us falls overboard," one of the men laughingly told a deckhand as they headed out to sea. "None of us can swim...
...ocean tides. Rignola and Farriel would later tell the authorities that Granberg, 6 ft. 4 in. and 275 lbs., offered to change places with Rignola, who was perched precariously in the middle. As Granberg stood up, his friends said, his foot slipped on the wet seat, and he vanished overboard...