Word: flustering
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...best player on the field—though it may not show up in the box score—has been tri-captain and senior back Jen Ahn. Ahn has played defense at a high level from the outset of the season. And while her defensive intensity continues to fluster her opponents, it is her team-friendly approach on offense that has proven unstoppable...
...definitely didn’t feel like the best race,” sophomore Bonnie Scott said. “But I don’t think we let it fluster us too much...
Karlen easily took the first game 15-4, as, despite the players' familiarity with each other, he succeeded in befuddling Valdesolo by varying his shots. In the second game, however, Valdesolo increased his intensity, using his speed and consistency to initially fluster Karlen. Before long, however, Karlen recovered, settling down to take the game 15-11 with some tricky front court shots that even the Amherst fans in attendance loved. Having gained the upper hand, Karlen refused to allow the tired Valdesolo to play himself back into the match, taking the third game...
...toward them slowly, noiselessly, and they, with edgy courtesy, worked obliquely away from my approach. I followed relentlessly, without a sound. At last when they judged that I insisted on being a pain in the neck, they did what I had waited for them to do: They did not fluster and flap up splashily in the way that, say, ducks do when disturbed; rather, they did the loon thing - the magic act. One after another, they elegantly beaked down and vanished without a trace. Poof! Submarines indeed. They dematerialized; they passed miraculously into the universe below...
...Catskills across the Hudson, miles to the west. In a wetland by the road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...