Word: overdoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorcade of eight cars crossed the Swiss frontier from the collapsing Third Reich. A very old Frenchman, wearing a black coat and a grey fedora, was the chief passenger. Beside him sat his worried wife. "Don't overdo it, Philippe!" she said. "Don't overdo it!" When a Swiss officer shook his bony hand, the old man's eyes watered. When Swiss girls gave him flowers and candy, his eyes watered again. His wife fretted: "Don't overdo it, Philippe...
...little slow-moving at first Hemingway ends up with a fast-action bang that seems to overdo itself to make up for the first half of the picture. But despite these flaws, the average is quite a bit higher than otlier recent films. It's worth going to see, even if only to argue about...
...lost, but it was not footless. They took a good toll from the enemy. . . . The submarines caused much loss and unfortunately have taken some themselves. Not much ever gets said about it for their personnel share, with the entire Navy, the description, 'the silent service.' They really overdo...
...There should be a ban on flowery, overenthusiastic lyrical sports writing for the duration. . . . Remembering the exploits of military heroes, it does not seem appropriate to overdo the use of such words as 'courageous,' 'gallant,' 'fighting'. ... It doesn't take much 'courage' to overcome a two-run lead in the ninth...
When he berates the colleges for being "too narrowly intellectual, too critical, too debunking, too skeptical," one senses that the Dean's attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches...