Word: overplaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrested land from the sea to become a prosperous agricultural and seafaring power; the Israel exhibit showed how a hardy breed of men created a nation in the desert after centuries of persecution; and even the boastful Russians blended exhibits of Sputnik, industrial machinery and imitative consumer goods to overplay the Soviets as a great industrial power...
Thanks to you for doing such a good job of reporting the findings of my high school study. The article had good balance and did not overplay unimportant aspects...
...health can have much effect. The forces in the economy are too powerful." Said the world's biggest banker. President S. Clark Beise of the Bank of America: "We will all carry on and everything will run in the same way. We shouldn't overplay any small health problem that may occur." Echoed Blyth & Co.'s President Charles R. Blyth: "No one's changing plans...
...capable performances, although one or two of them seem a little uncertain of their lines. But there is nothing unsure about the acting of Ray Duffy, who plays the leader of the thieves. He makes an altogether likeable yegg. Herb Adams, the second member of the trio, tends to overplay his part of a professional seducer and becomes a bit too arch at moments, though this fault does not damage his portrayal much...
TIME is neat, compact and well-written. But I think it dishonest of TIME to overplay modern art, and show such senile distortionalists and juvenile paint slingers. I do not question the right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...