Word: overboard
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...late to contribute anything important to the Nazi victory, yet not too soon to be fatally hurt by the Allies. . . . [Mussolini's] real danger is that the one side or the other, or both, may tire of his vacillation between unfulfilled threats and unfulfilled promises, and push him overboard...
...bedside manners had Lieutenant Governor John Henry Stelle (rhymes with bell), 48, lean and tough, who had not unreasonably assumed he should be at least Acting Governor. Disillusioned by Mr. Nudelman many months ago, thrown overboard by his Chicago political sponsors, Messrs. Kelly & Nash, Mr. Stelle had nowhere to go but out. Thinking it over, he decided that his way out would be dramatic. Mr. Stelle announced his candidacy for the Governorship...
Monday morning the British destroyer Glowworm was proceeding with her flotilla to lay mines off the Norwegian coast when she lost a man overboard. Delayed in picking him up, the Glowworm was hurrying to overtake her companions when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon...
...Wheeling "stogie" once achieved literary standing. When Rudyard Kipling wrote Captains Courageous he required something sufficiently powerful to make a worldlywise, traveled, smart-alec, young son of a rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the plot, to be rescued by a fishing smack. A Wheeling "stogie" did the trick-not an overdose of ice cream sodas, as in the movie version. The lad was no sissie...
...gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...