Word: overboard
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...does not encourage nostalgia. In an interview last week with Diane Sawyer of CBS, Nixon said, "Remember Lot's wife. Never look back!" He suggested that those who obsessively revisit Watergate may suffer from "Narcissus complexes." Nixon and the others from his crew (most of whom he threw overboard at the last moment, the captain struggling to be the last to go) will never gather at some hotel in, say, San Clemente, to share memories and souvenirs-enemies lists, voice-activated taping systems, smoking guns, the moral compasses that they lost...
When both gave out, they used their fishing nets, and that was when the trouble started. A few men, "taking advantage of the others," fished for themselves at night. The boatmaster fought with them. Four people "fell" overboard. Seven remained...
...believe him? Did you see such a thing before?' "No. But earlier in the voyage the boatmaster wanted to kill someone else for the same purpose. The man was so scared, he committed suicide; he struck the boatmaster on the head with a wooden bar, and then leaped overboard." That left...
Pham was told to eat for strength, and he did. But he remembers thinking that if the people on the boat ran out of food again, he planned to jump overboard. He is afraid of the boatmaster still. Thanks to Pham's testimony, the boatmaster was jailed by the Hong Kong authorities. Pham is terrified that the man will be released and come after...
...intended to go off in the dinghy, to be alone and breathe the brisk Pacific night. Whiting spent the night after the accident aboard the Splendour and struck upon an alternative theory: maybe Wood, kept awake by the sound of Valiant banging against the hull in the breeze, slipped overboard while trying to move the dinghy to the yacht's leeward side...