Word: overdoing
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...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...
...Right is Reader Freret; Cha is the word for tea. The honorific "O" (used in talking but not in writing) is applied to almost everything in "good society," but seemly Japanese learn not to overdo it to the point of comedy...
...cream (strawberry, chocolate); dipped tiny mugs of sweet, nonalcoholic punch. In redlined blue capes moved Red Cross nurses; the Red Cross ladies fussed with plates and spoons. Near, but tactfully hidden, waited a khaki colored Army ambulance. Men with 22-year-old wounds must not be overexcited, must not overdo-Trailed by uniformed aides strode Eleanor Roosevelt, summery in a long, pale blue dress, a white hat, to meet her guests...