Word: overplay
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...other countries will hardly resort to such a drastic and risky measure. Although Hitler has made all the demands so far, the English attitude is yet to be fully formulated and determined. Despite the war scare, it is well to remember that if Hitler does not continue to overplay a strong hand, with particular reference to a navy and Great Britain, no war is likely to come in the immediate future...
...shots," and for nationwide publicity blankets if they are Hucy Longs. And the literate morons lap it up, the intelligent must suffer. But in the end they stop themselves. "Like Hoflin, they become obsessed with their own drivel, they take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening to Huey Long. If this article demonstrates no other sad truths, it shows, with Machiavellian clearness, that Huey is no hard-working rough diamond, but rather a physical embodiment of the law of cunning...
...answer to Marine inaction was being formulated in Washington by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The Hoover Administration was deciding to underplay rather than overplay its military strength in Central America. Five days after the slaughter of the nine U. S. citi- zens, Secretary Stimson bluntly instructed U. S. diplomats and consular agents in Nicaragua as follows...
...book. The persons of the play are not all mere Shavian types, but present among their numbers true character studies. And it is in playing these character studies that the Repertory actors excelled. There was a flatness of level in their portrayal of the types, a tendency to overplay and make garishly unreal the half people, which was remarkably absent from their rendering of the character parts...