Word: overdid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, under FHA's Section 608, builders could put up middle-income housing with FHA help without tying up a large amount of capital. But in 1954 a spate of scandals broke about .builders who made windfall profits under 608. In its zeal to tighten up, the FHA overdid things. Even though the windfall profiteers were only a handful among thousands of honest builders, FHA now suspiciously administers its new 207 program, sets extremely rigid standards, digs through construction figures long after it has approved-threatens builders with future disapproval if they balk at making changes. Result: many builders...
Yale's Loftus did some wrong in setting up this situation; he overdid his job. Henry Johnston of the Harvard sports publicity office may be charged with contributory negligence in the matter, for no sportswriter at New Haven ever received a word from him on the state of things...
...nice try, but he overdid...
Mary Shiverick and H. Richard Uviller provided the best comedy of the evening. Although they overdid their English accents just a bit, their comical pomposity was splendid in spots. Uviller, particularly, showed real stage presence which must be the result of considerable past acting experience. As the dullard Blandina, Marilyn Weleh was miscast; she was really much too attractive to play a girl nobody was interested...