Word: overdoes
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...sweat and jiggles his legs tensely. He is a procrastinator and a soft touch. He has little small talk in social conversation. He has an intemperate streak that pushes him beyond sensible limits in poker playing, makes him work 40 hours at a stretch in a projection room or overdo the plowing on his farm. Sometimes in company he drifts off into trancelike gloom. Though he can be an amiable companion to the bottom of the bottle, he has a reserve that keeps his closest friends at arm's length. "I've never had any intimate friends...
From his years as a stock-market speculator, Baruch feels that he gleaned something more valuable than gold, a kind of golden mean of inspired common sense: "Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to try to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself, 'Two and two still make four, and no one has ever invented a way of getting something for nothing.' When the outlook is steeped in pessimism I remind myself, 'Two and two still make four, and you can't keep mankind down for long...
...with hats, and bureau drawers jammed with whatever else a rich Texan's Cinderella should put on and take off. Sizing things up, Lauren decides that her lunch hour has lasted long enough and starts back for the office. When her admirer catches up, he asks: "Did I overdo it?" Says Lauren: "I was tempted, but I began to think of how I would hate myself in the morning...
...program in Paine Hall, this enthusism did not wholly make up for the general insensitivity of the performances. The Chorus sang first a selection of old rounds and canons, followed by short works of Fifteenth and Sixteenth century composers--Senfl, Hassler, and others less obscure. It is easy to overdo nuance in very early music, but the Chorus did not use enough. The impression was not that they were making a deliberate attempt to sing with great reserve, but rather that little careful thought had been given to the matter of dynamics. Intonation was not always precise, and contrapuntal passages...
Though retired now, and careful not to overdo, J.D.R. Jr. is still the head of the clan. Each day in The Eyrie he rises at 7, breakfasts at 8 (he takes no coffee, no tea), starts work on his projects at 9. Lunch is served at noon, and afterward he takes a ritualistic one-hour nap, getting into pajamas, sleeping soundly. Sometimes he works through the afternoon; sometimes he relaxes among his Oriental wood carvings and Chinese Buddhas; sometimes he takes the second Mrs. Rockefeller (his beloved Abby died in 1948; in 1951 he married Martha Baird Allen, widow...