Word: overboard
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...roommate Sameer and I both went overboard. If I was our fair city's most glum resident, Sameer took a close second. That two people with uniformly negative views about the same institute ended up rooming together defies the laws of probability. Maybe bad vibes are contagious...
...center in Edenton, N.C., prayed to the devil. A girl said Kelly, the balding former golf pro they called Mr. Bob, raped and drugged her, then photographed her performing sexual acts with another child. Another boy said Mr. Bob took the children on a boat trip and pushed him overboard to the sharks...
...This guy is a crusader. He does everything for the people of Sabah," says Abelmann. "Unfortunately, in his position of advocating states' rights, he goes a little overboard...He's extremely motivated for his cause...
...under the carpet," executes an incredible sleight of hand. "Are the fears that Japan is still fighting wholly misplaced?" he asks. Sure, they are exaggerated, he says, but "Japan's big, internationally competitive companies are, to be sure, very disciplined, even regimented organizations. And they do, on occasion, go overboard with martial metaphors...
Provisionally, the Spanish magistrate charged with investigating the death settled on the most innocent explanation: Maxwell died of natural causes, probably suffering a heart attack before he fell overboard. Since he was found floating (a drowned body normally takes about three days to surface), that theory is not without merit. Most likely, no one will ever know the full story behind Maxwell's death...