Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hits was neatly-dragged bunt. Essayan has survived Varsity competition despite the fact that his foot was crushed by a truck in high school and he now wears a reinforced right shoe during games. "Take it easy on that stuff, though," he asks; "it's pretty easy to overdo...
...hodgepodge coalition cabinet headed by Katayama, a Christian whose favorite motto is "Do not overdo," had done a surprising amount in eight months. SCAP-sponsored democratizing legislation, obstructed by previous cabinets, had Katayama's willing acquiescence. The Home Ministry, notorious for its "thought control" hammer lock on the Japanese, had been dissolved; a Labor Ministry had been inaugurated; a new criminal code and a new police system had been established...
Symbol of his party's present mood is penguin-shaped Katayama. "Middle of the road" were the words with which General MacArthur approved him; "Do not overdo it" is Katayama's favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
...each case it is Rubinstein being dubbed on the sound track, playing as he thinks each would have played. His own pianistic style is clearly definable. Rubinstein is at his best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...
Lemon juice is rich in vitamin C, and doctors have recommended it at one time or another for rheumatism, colds, constipation, reducing. But some dentists last week sounded a warning: don't overdo it. Too much lemon juice may ruin your teeth...