Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sailor on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson was swept overboard and drowned in the Pacific...
...They gave us no option," said freshman Caroline R. Maibor, who added the program should not have divided students according to race. "I think they went overboard," she said. "They created unnecessary problems...
...succeed in opening up that society and seeing the Soviets recognize that Communism has not succeeded. At the same time, I don't think success or failure depends on what we do. We must continue to approach this relationship with prudence, realism, and to be reserved and not go overboard here just because we see a change...
...encouraging exhibitionism and greed -- the sort of schoolmarmish complaint that deserves a dousing with green slime. Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, praises the channel as a healthy alternative to network fare but is worried that some of its newer shows "may have gone a little overboard taking a Mad magazine approach...
...that showed Palestine before Israel was created. And Abul Abbas, the demon of the Achille Lauro, was embraced by Arafat and seated as a member of the P.L.O.'s executive committee; Abul Abbas smirked that Leon Klinghoffer, the 69-year-old American shot in his wheelchair and dumped overboard, "maybe was trying to swim...