Word: back-checking
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...often encountered difficulty in keeping control of the puck, as BU’s defensive pressure forced hasty passes or uncontrolled stick-handling. The team’s best scoring chances came when the it managed a quick breakout from its own zone before all of the Terriers could back-check and set up in front of the Terrier...
Business and journalism are in a more even balance now. More facts are on public record; corporations have set up sophisticated public relations operations; executives often find it prudent to talk to the press even when the news is embarrassing. All business magazines routinely back-check figures with corporate sources. But they do not provide a prepublication chance to learn what a competitor said or allow a quote by one of the corporation's own executives to be modified. Nobody wants to put out a Congressional Record full of flattened-out prose and "extended remarks...
...Monday's game the team lacked coordination on the attack, and seemed very slow to back-check on defense. Harvard has shown against B.C., Northeastern, Princeton, and Dartmouth that it is, however, capable of playing good hockey, tonight may be the time that this good hockey breaks...
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