Word: overboard
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...Missouri, where Harry Truman won his intraparty cat-&-dog fight (see The Presidency), voters chose two politically pallid rivals to contest for Harry Truman's old Senate spot. Smalltime publisher Frank P. Briggs, now filling the seat by appointment, breezed through the Democratic primary; Republicans went overboard for James P. Kern, well-to-do Kansas City lawyer...
...ravaged English thriller. Its somewhat peremptory title: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. The high-strung, blood-&-guts story furnished so fine a busman's holiday that they dismembered it, passed it around chapter by chapter. To their horror, they found that the last two chapters had gone overboard...
...college and team. Thus youngsters work hard. But most of the credit belongs to genial ex-footballer Shelton, who knows the trick of getting both fun and science into the game. He shuns blackboard drills, sets no hard & fast training rules. Unlike some coaches, Shelton doesn't go overboard for elongated lads just because they are tall. Says he, "We try to get players who will fit our plan of offense rather than attempt to build plays around them." He never works the team more than two hours a day. His practices start at 3 p.m. with shooting...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...
...Allied order, Shintoism had been disclaimed as Japan's state religion. Hirohito now carried the process a revolutionary step farther. He threw overboard the whole fantastic doctrine that the Japanese people and their ruler are divine, and that they have a divine mission of world conquest. This doctrine, as zealously inculcated as Nazi ideas in Nazi Germany, had been the mainspring for half a century of Kamikaze fanaticism and grandiose visions...