Word: overstepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violins. $23 sewing machines, $14 bicycles, promised to deliver nails, newsprint and electric motors at prices far below Japanese goods. But haste to gather foreign exchange to cover a huge trade deficit with Russia-and to do what it could to damage non-Communist competitors-led Red China to overstep itself. Its rickety economy suffered from primitive production methods, an overburdened transportation system, and an anarchic planning system that put untrained workers on industrial machines and knowledgeable technicians in mines or paddies. A classic example of chaos was Peking's 1958 decision to encourage hundreds of thousands of peasants...
...power-mad blacks overstep the bounds of propriety to murder, plunder, and rape the helpless whites, who finally save themselves and the South "from complete anarchy" by banning together to form the good man's friend, the Ku Klux Klan...
...every factory worker producing war material, would know that he was breaking the law of his country and of mankind. Were any state to begin to violate it, diplomatic representatives of other countries would learn about it promptly. For though it is possible secretly to circumvent partial disarmament, to overstep quotas, etc., it is impossible to arm secretly per se. When such action was even suspected would be the moment for a U.N. peace commission to investigate. "A breach of the peace" would begin with the first preparation for war, before the offender could resist U.N. [forces...