Word: fluster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining minutes of the game saw Harvard fluster the Husky defense with short passes. The fancy stickwork paid off with 11:15 remaining, when Annie MacMillan's first goal of the year narrowed the margin...
Vastola's psychological and tactical maneuvers are not only directed at his opponents. They are also aimed at the director. Unlike many fencers Vastola never loses his self-control on the strip. As others fuss, fume and fluster Vastola hides his frustration with dubious calls and uses gentle persuasion to try and get the director thinking "the right...
With ten minutes to go, Coach Kleinfelder called a time-out to change strategies. The Crimson came back with a full court press. This seemed to fluster ENC, but after a few plays, they were successfully feeding Donna Fandel under the basket from the right side...
Perhaps these are the qualities which make his regular appearances on the Tomorrow Show the prize of late night television. In an interview taped soon after the Cincinnati conviction, Tom Snyder, full of indignant fluster, demanded to know how Flynt could publish a magazine which so egregiously corrupted the minds of readers. Flynt reminded Snyder that experts (most notably the recent Commission on Obscenity and Pornography) had not been able to establish the link between reading obscenity and committing obscene acts. If in fact pornography is dangerous, mused Flynt, just contemplate the ravaged minds of all the psychologists and assistant...
...modern art have taught us to feel queasy in the presence of his immense worldliness, Shakespearean erudition and, above all, his imagery: those nudes, pink bombé-fronted wardrobes of flesh; those heroes and captains and kings, displaying their vigor and assurance like baroque cock-birds of paradise; the fluster of rich fabrics and cloud, the lions and leopards and marble...