Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other worldwide tomfoolery: British newspapers went overboard, as usual, with tall stories of the sublime and the ridiculous. The buttoned-up Independent carried an "exclusive" leak on plans for Tony Blair's modernized House of Lords, in which their lordships will be chosen from the public by lottery. The tabloid Daily Mail went for something a bit fishier: "Red Herring Returns After 500 years...
...ahilariously comical performance while describinghis efforts to recover that body part of WinstonChurchill which had been importunely stolen.Greaves and Smith are equally proficient inmilking every melodramatic funny bone in theaudience with their overactive (if repressed)sexual drives. However, the production takentogether as a clumped mass of sexual innuendoperhaps goes overboard on this front. It is inthis aspect that the production becomes in dangerof approximating not Oscar Wilde, but that otherEnglishman of perhaps more dubious fame, BennyHill...
...until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make room for later-arriving choppers. For many Americans, it was like a death--long been expected but shocking when it finally happened...
...times. He was with Governor Clinton in 1980 after the young pol's bitter electoral defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard at the 1996 Democratic National Convention because of a sex scandal. He knows how to clean up a mess. "The last thing he'd ever do is betray a friendship," Clinton once told the New York Times. "It's good to have a friend like that...
...their actions, bad cops like Blondie are criminals who have largely abrogated their rights to be protected by the laws they chose to ignore. But the justice system has gone overboard in protecting criminals and made it difficult for cops to do their job. We force police officers to live (and sometimes die) by rules that enemies of society routinely ignore. ROBERT TOROK Toronto...