Word: overplayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...