Word: corral
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Smith, who works with ice-hockey players, finds that biofeedback techniques are particularly effective for controlling jitters. Most athletes are skilled at visual imagery, and when shown monitors that display their anxiety levels as a graph or chart, they quickly learn to corral their nervousness and keep it from interfering with the smooth flow of their practiced skills. "I tell people they need to try to get back to doing rather than thinking," says Simons...
...Crimson’s man-to-man defense worked, even if Harvard came up well short of an upset bid over the preseason unanimous favorite. Dartmouth was rattled during the Crimson’s second half tear, unable to find shots or corral defensive rebounds as the Big Green did consistently in the first half. “You know what it is? It’s the type of nothing-to-lose mentality which was our intention in starting the game,” Delaney-Smith said of the Crimson’s second half performance...
...plea deal comes as the House Republican leadership faces trying times. DeLay was forced to step down as Houe Majority Leader after he was indicted on unrelated money laundering charges in Texas, and his temporary replacement, Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, has failed to corral increasingly fractious House Republicans. Leadership elections are expected when the House reconvenes at the end of January. And nervous incumbents worry that the Abramoff and DeLay scandals will hurt them in mid-term elections next fall...
...he’s a tough guy to box out.”Nwadike was able to single-handedly match the rebounding effort of Stehle, who had 10 boards, and Cusworth, who had six. Overall, the Blue Devils grabbed 15 of their own misses while Harvard could only corral 19 defensive boards, well below the team’s goal of 70 percent.“You’re not going to beat any team when they shoot over 50 percent [from three] and get almost 50 percent of our defensive rebounds,” Stehle said...
...junior tutorials with finesse). But how many of us have routinely had sections where TFs walk into class without a lesson plan or even a basic strategy for guiding conversations? How many have had TFs who do not know how to facilitate a discussion, to focus its inquiry, to corral its digressions? How often as a result have we had to suffer through sections dominated by classmates in love with their own voice and grubbing for grades? Too often we leave more confused and more turned off to the material than when we arrived. Too often there is too much...