Word: overdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixons have used for years. The tree in the family quarters stands on a revolving base that plays Jingle Bells. Outside, for the first time, tiny white lights glow from the boxwoods that line the front driveway. To TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, Mrs. Nixon explained: "You can't overdo at Christmas time. The more the better, so far as I'm concerned...
...expect that soon you will be publishing smoke-room stories; but if and when you do, please check with me. I believe there are only 18 basic ones-so don't overdo...
...slave ship's apparent captain, Don Benito Cereno (William Young), and his apparent slave Babu (James Spruill) fails to compensate for the inappropriate tone. The image of Babu as a happy, able and devoted servant seduces Delano into unwitting contradiction of his American democratic precepts: "Sometimes I think we overdo our talk of freedom./ If you looked into our hearts, we all want slaves...
...prisoners were not expected to survive. Yet Solzhenitsyn also knows, as he says in The First Circle, that "descriptions of prison life tend to overdo the horror of it. Surely it is more frightening when there are no actual horrors; what is terrifying is the unchanging routine year after year. The horror is forgetting that your life?the only life you have?is destroyed, is in your willingness to forgive even some ugly swine of a warder, is in being obsessed with grabbing a big hunk of bread in the prison mess or getting a decent set of underwear when...
...about his condition. What all of the experts are wholeheartedly against is nonexercise. This leaves little comfort for the many who hold that the only good exercise is lifting a glass at the end of a tense day. For them, a word must be said about the tendency to overdo: after the last glass of Pommard with the blue cheese, it is not wise to rise too rapidly from the chair. That might be too strenuous...