Word: overboard
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...After the airplane started taxiing we struck a wire or a piece of debris in the river. I lost control of the machine. Anne jumped into the river, and realizing the force of the current, I jumped overboard to assist her. . . . We were struggling in the water when a launch ... arrived." (Colonel Lindbergh, via United Press...
...Wood's alibi for his first false start was that his watch and that of his mechanic had stopped within a minute of the start, and that they had thrown them overboard! Nevertheless, the feeling that he had won by foul play where he knew he could not win by fair, persisted. Don was too honest even to suspect such a trick, and was an easy victim. It was suggested on many sides that the Trophy should be exhibited in the Yacht Club this year, covered with a black cloth. Kaye Don proved himself a thorough sportsman when...
Philip Snowden, a final throwing overboard of his last Socialist principles, a break with countless friends...
...found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men in a canoe, one about 50, the other about 18, had boarded the Penguin, bound her husband and thrown him overboard, then paddled her to the launch and left her (TIME, Sept...
...been alive when thrown into the water, although the blow on his head was enough to have caused his death. This substantiated many points of Mrs. Collings' story: There had been a struggle before Collings' hands were bound. He had cried out: "They're putting me overboard!" The fact that his hands and feet were bound started police searching for a second victim. Mrs. Collings had said the two killers told her husband they had a wounded man with them. N. L. Noteman, the fisherman who found Barbara Collings on the drifting boat, had reported seeing...