Word: overboard
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...Pilgrims as hypocrites and fools until he was mellowed by beautiful Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), wife of the colony's second governor, William Bradford (Leo Genn). It was Mrs. Bradford's unrequited love for the skipper, according to Screenwriter Deutsch, that caused her to throw herself overboard...
Eleventh Hour. Even though European papers gave the campaign more space than ever, much of the reporting, with the notable exception of the London Telegraph, was slanted by newsmen blinded by their affection for Stevenson and their misunderstanding of America. One of the first to go overboard was Manchester Guardian Correspondent Alistair Cooke, who two months ago predicted a Stevenson victory. But in an eleventh-hour conversion, Cooke took another look at Stevenson's "reach for greatness," as compared to Ike's "much more 'normal' campaign," and wrote: "It now appears most likely that the people...
Although Brodrick believes that St. Francis worked miracles, he casts a skeptical eye on some of them. One is the famous story that, after Xavier lost a crucifix overboard at sea, a crab miraculously returned it to the shore the next day. The saint never mentioned this himself and, although the story was cited in the Papal Bull announcing Xavier's canonization, Brodrick does not believe it. ("It is entirely a matter of evidence.") Another legend: Xavier's reputedly miraculous "gift of tongues." Father Brodrick notes that the Basque saint was a notoriously poor linguist, not even fluent...
...transcends both; for while they mask themselves as characters in novels, Koestler admits that he is laying bare his soul before his readers. He also has the advantage (questionable to be sure) of a familiarity with Freudian psychoanalysis. One wonders whether the author has not gone a bit overboard when he uses this method to explain his youth in Budapest. It is difficult to believe that a man can become so detached from himself as to reveal so much of his personality...
...must go overboard at times to reach...