Word: overextended
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...performance. According to her son, she feels that steady excellence is essential to promoting greater public interest in the sport. Bill says he feels that this emphasis is in contrast to that of Penny Tweedy, breeder of Secretariat and Riva Ridge, who Gerry feels had a tendency to overextend the horses to get them before the public...
...feels the U.S. was close to a solution to the Angola problem before Congress got involved and, in his opinion, encouraged the Soviets to continue their intervention. Nonetheless, Western officials believe the Kremlin is still divided over the aid program. Some Soviet defense officials argued that it would militarily overextend the U.S.S.R.; some Foreign Ministry officials feared that the Angola intervention was jeopardizing detente. But the critics were overruled by the Communist Party hierarchy, which favored stepping up help to the M.P.L.A., largely to counterbalance Chinese successes in Mozambique and elsewhere in Africa...
...been tripled in the last year alone by the presence of 1,400,000 refugees from the countryside. Instead the insurgents maintained their successful-and relatively inexpensive-campaign of attrition. "The Khmer Rouge are everywhere," reported TIME Correspondent Peter Range. "They do not concentrate their forces heavily, do not overextend themselves, do not shoot for the large objectives until they have taken several smaller ones first...
...Before President Nixon becomes too upset over the trends toward neo-isolationism that he perceives in this country, maybe he should give cognizance to the fact that the Russians have won their most significant victories by encouraging their foes to overextend themselves...
...week of triumph for the Congo's professionals. In a freelance foray, a band of 14 white mercenaries blithely recaptured the strategic Congo River port of Lisala, despite orders from the timorous Congolese army high command not to overextend their supply lines. The mercenaries - mostly Southern Rhodesians - cut down 160 of the 3,000 well-armed rebel defenders, had to drive their Jeeps over mounds of rebel dead to enter the Moyen Congo provincial capital. Another mercenary band took back the North Katanga town of Kongolo, found that, as usual, the rebels had slaughtered the whole "intellectual" population...