Word: overboard
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...Sheila Tate argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle. "Yes, it was a downer," admits Mrs. Reagan. "They didn't want me to get into it." But get into it she did, and even though the press itself is now fretting that it might have gone overboard in its breathless chronicling of the war on drugs, she is holding firm in her conviction that this is a national tragedy...
...about to protest or make some pointed remarks about their speech and grammar when I was hit by the sickening realization that they were right. In trying to overcome my own redneck accent, I had gone overboard...
Many at the Fogg yesterday afternoon, though, thought the Metropolitan District Commission went a little overboard when a contingent of 48 goose-stepping coppers made its presence known on Quincy Street...
More advanced craft are on the way. The Navy's National Ocean Systems Center in San Diego is developing ROVs that operate free of a tether. These AUVs--autonomous underwater vehicles--will be programmed for missions before they are dropped overboard. "The next step," says Howard Talkington, head of NOSC's engineering and computer science department, "is to do away with the umbilical cord and operate the ROV completely in a robotic manner...
Four Palestinians commandeered the Achille Lauro off the Egyptian coast and demanded that Israel release 51 jailed Palestinians. Klinghoffer was shot to death and thrown overboard...