Word: overdid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some particularly close contests, the President may have turned off voters by attacking Democratic candidates by name. "The Republicans overdid it with Reagan," says Orleans Parish Assessor Ken Carter, who backed Democrat Breaux. "He began to sound like just another politician." In Missouri, former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond withdrew an ad in which Reagan warmly endorsed him. Bond feared that it would inspire anti-Reagan votes for his opponent...
...spirit of the evening, Bush worked in some words of tribute to Loeb, who died in 1981. "Nobody, least of all me, is going to disagree that Bill Loeb raised his share of hell." Added Bush plaintively: "I think in my case, he overdid it." His reception was overwhelmingly lukewarm. Nackey Loeb, the Union Leader's current publisher and William's widow, spoke as gingerly as had Bush. Her late husband, she said, "would be grateful to the Vice President of the U.S." for his presence, though she carefully refrained from specifying which Vice President. The evening, with...
There was an element of condescension in Mondale's stressing just a little too much the implication that the President was not in command of the material and was not sharp enough. I think he overdid that, and I think he was wrong. I think that out of this debate Reagan emerges looking somewhat more presidential, and Mondale looks like somebody who has learned a number of speeches, which were presented with reasonable eloquence but which really didn't hang together. Mondale tried to get both to the left and the right of President Reagan and thus provided...
...visited city hall in an effort to find out the source of the bogus report. Koch, who had publicly denied that the Israelis were involved, admitted Lavie's role. But, said an Israeli official, "there was no disinformation and no anti-Weinberger campaign. It was Mayor Koch who overdid...
...guess I overdid it a bit, huh?" Mondale said as he chuckled...