Word: overplay
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...hesitated with reasons. One reason was the value of a diplomatic listening post in France. Another was the chance that the Germans might overplay their hand, arouse Vichy to partial resistance. The best reason was the small bet the U.S. has placed on General Maxime Weygand to resist any Axis attack on Vichyfrench Africa. General Weygand hates the guts of General de Gaulle...
Controversies over neutral rights and the mutual recrimination by newspapers in both countries were the two principal sources of ill feeling, he said. "Seward with an eye on the Irish vote and an ignorance of international law was apt to overplay his hand and mingle well founded protests at British violations with unjustified demands for concessions." Both nations realized that their actions would establish precedents for later diplomacy...
...Tide," the latest film in Technicolor, is a great disappointment; first, Director James Hogan falls in love with his blues and greens, second, for the most part the actors either overplay or underplay their parts, and third, the picture starts so slowly that one is led to believe that the first two reels are still sitting in the Back Bay luggage room...
...longer seems to rest entirely upon the ebb and flow of Spain's political fortunes. The dramatic threats of the Soviet and the deep-throated growls of dictatorships alike reecho but are dissipated on the rock of Anglo-French determination to preserve peace. But one country or another may overplay its hand in this game of bluff, with dire consequences for the world. Then Britain, France, and even the not-so-isolated United States will have to decide whether to play the role of the Spanish liberals and succomb, or whether steadfastly to deny the word "choose" and reassert...
...even with him. Accused of implication in a political murder, he was arrested, imprisoned in the Tower, faced with trial for his life. With characteristic energy he methodically tracked down every piece of false evidence, finally cleared himself. In building up his hero Biographer Bryant does not overplay his hand. He admits that Pepys. after the death of his wife, "formed a connection" with one Mary Skinner, that he delighted in the emoluments and furbelows of his high office, that he accepted presents occasionally-red sprats, a tun of Rhenish wine, even a tame lion...