Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President seems to have maintained his resolve against firing any more of his aides. "Reagan is about as rigid as I've ever seen him," says a longtime ally outside the Administration. "He doesn't want to throw anyone overboard to satisfy Washington's considered wisdom. He thinks that he is being well served by his present staff." Chief of Staff Donald Regan apparently feels his job is once again secure. Several aides say the haunted, hunted demeanor that Regan displayed in the early days of the controversy receded after a Dec. 11 meeting with the President. Regan "hasn...
...does he have troubles. Swept out of his family bosom and overboard from the ship carrying them to the New World by an Atlantic storm, Fievel bobs into New York harbor in a bottle. Quickly he discovers that American streets are not paved with cheese and that whoever said the golden land was free of cats was, well, exaggerating. Not to worry, though. Fievel (whose voice is supplied by eight-year-old Actor Phillip Glasser) is fully as brave and resourceful as any homogenized Disney rodent. And he is capable of exposing his most vulnerable feelings as few animated critters...
...Sheila Tate argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle. "Yes, it was a downer," admits Mrs. Reagan. "They didn't want me to get into it." But get into it she did, and even though the press itself is now fretting that it might have gone overboard in its breathless chronicling of the war on drugs, she is holding firm in her conviction that this is a national tragedy...
...about to protest or make some pointed remarks about their speech and grammar when I was hit by the sickening realization that they were right. In trying to overcome my own redneck accent, I had gone overboard...
Many at the Fogg yesterday afternoon, though, thought the Metropolitan District Commission went a little overboard when a contingent of 48 goose-stepping coppers made its presence known on Quincy Street...