Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Saulnier, a too rapid expansion of credit caused overbuying of autos and other consumer durables, helped bring on the recession of 1957. If consumer installment purchasing increases too rapidly now and after the steel strike, Saulnier fears U.S. consumers will overreach themselves, bring on a decline...
...mathematics and department recommendations in choosing permanent appointments, however. Occasionally, a department is allowed to "go in debt" and appoint an outstanding man who might be lost to another college if Graustein should be followed literally. The decision of whether a department can overreach itself is left to the Administration...
...overplay: his Lear speaks often in great half-sobs, often raises his arms to heaven, often staggers about the stage. If Lear were an ordinary man, Devlin would stand convicted of the grossest heroics. But Lear is not ordinary: his rages are monumental, 'his sufferings monumental. One must overplay, overreach oneself to attain such lofty heights--Devlin does...
After some cosmic concentration, a Manhattan astrologer emerged with "the ten most fascinating horoscopes in the world." They included Joseph Stalin, whose emotional disturbances caused by the aspects to his Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Pisces will cause him to overreach himself ... His chart further indicates failing health starting in April" Come spring, Winston Churchill's stars 'will lead him along daring and awe-inspiring paths." The Yankees' Yogi Berra ". . . must be careful to avoid physical injury during February and August...
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...