Russ eagerly asked what "jettisoned" meant, and the man explained that the crew had pushed overboard all the deckload of lumber. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
Kepler's dust cover has now been jettisoned, meaning the search for extrasolar 'Earths' is not long from commencing. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
He ploughed into a parked Seat, causing front-seat passenger Mr Cromer to be "jettisoned" out the window onto the pavement near to a bus stop. From Wordnik.com. [icLiverpool] Reference
Does the external tank get jettisoned afterwards, gentlemen?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2006] Reference
He will have jettisoned the legitimacy offered by New Labour. From Wordnik.com. [David Miliband is the man best placed for leadership] Reference
Around the distant bubbs floated a haze of jettisoned refuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Since then, Labour has jettisoned most of its socialist baggage. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Melancholy Conservatives!] Reference
They have been jettisoned in favor of further borrowed war spending. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Mike Honda: A Credit Card for War, But No Cash for Teachers?] Reference
But we have long since jettisoned that model for a purely democratic one. From Wordnik.com. [Idiot Nation?] Reference
Schloss's approach is to cut back everywhere-even flavor may be jettisoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Downsizing Of Dinner] Reference
But it does mean that some old assumptions about Britain will have to be jettisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Diana's Britain] Reference
Vista has been a very long time in coming, and parts of it were jettisoned along the way. From Wordnik.com. [Finally, Vista Makes Its Debut. Now What?] Reference
But late last month, in an act that appalled many Balanchine fans, the muse was jettisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Dancers In The Line Of Fire] Reference
They are put in place and are deemed a success and retained, or deemed a failure and jettisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Willingham: 3 key factors in teacher evaluation (beyond the hype of value-added)] Reference
It has jettisoned several brands including Saturn, Pontiac and the notoriously gas-guzzling Hummer. From Wordnik.com. [General Motors back from the brink and set for $20bn flotation] Reference
Fuel crews had finished loading the tanks which would be jettisoned along with the engine at burn-out. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
He pumped the handle, and cool clear water jettisoned out, into a trough that led to the field of roses. From Wordnik.com. [OUT ON THE EDGE OF VICTORIAN CIVILIZATION] Reference
If he continues to stonewall, he could find himself jettisoned by putative friends like Russia and China. From Wordnik.com. [SURVIVAL MODE?] Reference
MARTIN: When this album came out, all of a sudden it jettisoned you into a totally different stratosphere. From Wordnik.com. [15 Years Later, Liz Phair Revisits 'Guyville'] Reference
We have jettisoned the importance of the individual, making a person's racial category utterly controlling. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From The Past] Reference
It jettisoned what it could to lighten the load, declared a Mayday and put down on an airfield in Slovenia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Pentagon Spokesman Quigley Addresses Reporters About Spy Plane Row With China - April 3, 2001] Reference
For the first 60 miles it rides piggyback on a 500,000-gallon tank, which is then jettisoned into the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Siren] Reference
As you said, John, up until MECO, main engine cutoff, and then the external tank will be jettisoned after that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2006] Reference
ABC and Disney was absolutely unapologetic about trying to get David Letterman and they jettisoned Ted Koppel to do it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2002] Reference
But now even his record has become irrelevant, since to become the front runner McCain has jettisoned many of his past positions. From Wordnik.com. [Once Upon a Principle] Reference
But "Abstraction" turns out to be, if not the Cliffs Notes, the Reader's Digest version of how modern art jettisoned representation. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Slant] Reference
For example: May Department Stores, owner of Lord & Taylor, has jettisoned designer apparel in favor of more moderately priced goods. From Wordnik.com. [Remaking A Dinosaur] Reference
In one respect, this may signal that the Obama administration has jettisoned the lofty rhetoric of building a "flourishing democracy.". From Wordnik.com. [Malou Innocent: Afghanistan's 2010 Parliamentary Elections: Bright Spot or Blood Spot?] Reference
Yet in this new age of austerity, jet-setting has been jettisoned, private yachts docked and presidential suites left to the presidents. From Wordnik.com. [A Recess From the Recession] Reference
Others were jettisoned into the Adriatic by Allied pilots who deemed it unsafe to land with unused ordnance still attached to their wings. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds Of Carnage] Reference
But after the wise men -- or at least, their younger siblings -- led America into the morass of Vietnam the old ways had to be jettisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Cheers And Jeers] Reference
Instead, sources say, Simpson's attorneys will file a motion suggesting that the hearings be jettisoned, or at least significantly curtailed, thus speeding up the trial date. From Wordnik.com. [Testing The Gene Fit] Reference
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