Word: overcommit
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Outside center Jaffer Patterson's try four minutes into the contest opened the scoring. After the forward pack won a scrummage following a Huskie penalty, senior Scott Tierney sliced through the defense and forced the fullback and fly-half to overcommit themselves...
Fullback Bruce Miller scored the game-winner off a five-meter scrummage. Miller received a nice pass from freshman eight-man Soren O'Berg. During loose play, O'Berg picked the ball up, ran around the corner--forcing the Eagle defenders to overcommit themselves--before he passed to the trailing Miller...
...with the play, which may make Harvard's recently revived sweep look ready for John Yovicsin's scrap book again, but it may also make Yale susceptible to cutting back across the flow. This is hardly a sure bet, however. Dartmouth used counters to exploit Yale's tendency to overcommit, and "they didn't go much of anywhere," according to Gallhager...
...there. Naturally, we're indebted to the country. We've got to pay them back and give them this information, but we don't have to give them an appearance. We've done that, and I sort of feel badly about having to overcommit ourselves to these extraneous appearances." Schirra also complained about NASA's nearly 40-minute delay in flashing word to an anxious world that Astronaut Scott Carpenter's capsule had survived re-entry at the end of his triple orbit on May 24. "We knew where Scott was," said Schirra...
...MacArthur lent no support to those who, with ex-President Hoover, would make the U.S. a Gibraltar, or to Taft's thesis, reiterated last week, that "We must not overcommit this country . . . There is a definite limit to what we can do." MacArthur said: "There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism...