Word: overplaying
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...making the scoring more spread around," Gielen said. "Teams realize that he is a prolific scorer, and when they overplay him, it leaves someone else open...
...diagram shows the first of her two power-play goals. Note the positions of Joslin (5), Julie Sasner (15), and Brita Lind (11). They formed a triangle around a Bruin defender whose assignment was to overplay Sasner. Joslin released her point position (H) and went down the slot to score...
Most of the credit, though, belongs to the actors, who all overplay to the hilt. Adam Schwartz creates a perfectly blustery and "bully" Teddy Roosevelt--er, Teddy Brewster. Josh Frost is chilling as Jonathan, and thanks to Melanie Deas' make-up skills (I hope), he really does look like Boris Karloff. As the old aunts, Molly Bishop and Jennifer Donaldson find a surprisingly childish glee in their chemical activities...
Harvard had leads of 1-0 and 2-1 early in the first period, but Cornell then changed its defensive strategy, choosing to overplay the Crimson attackmen in hopes of forcing turnovers...
...seasoned performer will tell you, never overplay an anticlimax. Ronald Reagan knows that better than most, and his second Inaugural, a four-day wingding that begins this Friday, will be quieter, more controlled and a good deal less ostentatious than his first. The Inaugural, America's 50th, is being carefully crafted by the soon-to-depart Michael Deaver and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to rein in spending and promote a new egalitarian image for the Administration. Its theme: "We the People . . . An American Celebration...