Word: overboard
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...second companion "under a small wooden cross" must have jumped overboard before reaching Panama in order to have his funeral in the woods of Darien...
...Regent's Park Pond a middle-aged patriot was placidly rowing a boat when the silence began, tried to stand upright in his skiff and splashed overboard. Coming to the surface he stood waist-deep in muck and cold water, head bowed for 90 seconds before squishing ashore...
...long-haired young man, whose weathered face belied his trade, was a storekeeper with a passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars and driftwood, pulled him out. He lost...
...program of destroying coffee bought from growers with the proceeds of a $2.40 per bag export tax on coffee.* Familiar sights in Brazil ever since have been huge grey-green piles of coffee beans smouldering slowly away under great smoke plumes, barges lumbering out to sea to dump coffee overboard, workmen mixing coffee and tar into briquets for building. Since 1931 these activities have destroyed 52,547,493 bags of coffee (almost 7,000,000,000 lb.), worth at last week's price of 9⅛per lb. some $638,750,000, and sufficient to supply every man, woman...
...they watched the monster's movements the negro suggested that they could destroy it by heating a fire-brick in the stove, wrapping it quickly in some old greasy cloths as a sort of disguise and then heaving it overboard. The suggestion was acted upon at once and the effect was triumphant...