Word: overreact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offer a sustained, considered judgment: "Without question, Nixon had the potential to be the greatest conservative political leader of his time; he knew his goals and he had the skills required to achieve them. Yet he had a fatal flaw too, an inability to tolerate criticism, an instinct to overreact in political combat. I don't know which came first, the liberals' loathing of Nixon or Nixon's loathing of the liberals, but the passions fed on one another, grew more and more bitter, until once he achieved the presidency, Nixon could not resist the urge...
Moreover, he did not overreact when Israeli troops violated the Oct. 22 cease-fire and surrounded the city of Port Suez. Sadat's restraint allowed Kissinger to make a convincing case to the Israelis that Egypt really wanted an agreement...
...made a desert and called it peace. Considering all this, maybe half the Nobel Peace Prize [which Kissinger shared with Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator] was about right." Hughes went on: "As long as Nixon continues in office, we can expect him to do what comes naturally-overreact in all directions ... There is nothing further that Nixon can add to the formulation and conduct of American foreign policy for the next three years that can't be done better without him. For his remaining time in the White House, he has to be regarded as a foreign...
Frank, now 57, argues that Wall Street does not properly evaluate agency stocks, and tends to overreact every time an account is won or lost. "We went public to provide liquidity," he says, "but how can you continue to have access to liquidity when there's no market for your stock...
...Jesuits are in crisis because we are in a world of crisis," says Father John Blewett, who advises Arrupe on educational matters. Indian Jesuit Herbert de Souza observes that Jesuits react to the crisis in one of two ways: "Some of us become numbed while others overreact. There will be a split among thinking men, especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society...