Word: overreachings
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They frequently disagree-at first. George, the self-taught expert on finance, usually holds back, raises the practical obstacles, demanding: "If we do this, where's the money to come from?" John, the bold empire builder, is always tugging ahead, might overreach himself but for George...
...world there was rarely a prince who was wise and even more rarely one who was pious. They are usually the biggest fools and the worst criminals upon earth. ... It pleases the divine will that we ... be unto them humble subjects, as long as they do not overreach themselves and wish to be shepherds instead of executioners...
...Umpires ruled that they had gone too far: instead of being marked with broad Blue arm bands as the rules required, they wore tiny Blue ribbons on their hats. They also drove a deceptively marked vehicle. They were disqualified, and the effects of their raid canceled. But for this overreach, Ben Lear might have been compelled to run his army with a skeleton staff...
...flunked the National Labor Board because nowhere in the law was that agency, an extra-legal body backed only by the President's prestige, given authority to force settlements in the backwash of NRA code-making. The Ford and coal strikes exemplified the stubborn militancy of Labor to overreach itself, the stubborn militancy of Capital to resist to the limit...
Webster's New International Dictionary defines jew: "... To overreach by sharp practice, cheating or trickery; to practice imposition or extortion upon;- used opprobriously in allusion to practices imputed to the Jews by those who dislike them, or now sometimes colloquially without conscious reference to the Jews...