Word: overshoot
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...trouble with heparin and some other anticoagulants is that they not only prevent clotting, but may overshoot the mark and make a patient liable to hemorrhage. Doctors in Malaya, treating victims of pit viper bites, noticed that they never seemed to have trouble with clots, and neither did they bleed excessively. Years of research to purify the active part of the venom yielded a substance named Arvin by London's Twyford Laboratories. Now, reports in the Lancet testify to the potential of Arvin, given intravenously...
...pros did their bit to beat themselves at Hot Springs. Texas' Mickey Wright, looking for her fifth Open title, shot an 80 in the second round; Louise Suggs, a two-time winner, pulled to within one stroke of Catherine-only to overshoot the green on the par-five, 534-yd. 16th hole and take a double-bogey seven. Playing methodical, unspectacular golf from tee to green and putting superbly, Catherine opened up a seven-stroke lead that put the tournament safely out of reach, despite a case of last-round jitters-six bogeys in seven holes. Finishing with...
Glimp asserted that even if the number does overshoot the 1200 mark, it wouldn't present any serious problems. "There wouldn't be any trouble in the Yard dormitories, and it would only mean another three or four men for each House after next year...
...pilot of an F-84 Thunderjet reported a sense of "befuddlement" on his first five flights, and a "tendency to overshoot in reaching out rapidly with his arm." On the remaining 25 flights he learned to anticipate his troubles. But famed Air Force Test Pilot Charles Yeager,at much higher altitudes, reported "serious disorientation in his 13th second of weightlessness." Yeager, writes Major Simons, "got the impression that he was spinning around slowly in no particularly defined direction. After 15 seconds he became lost in space and pulled out [of his flight pattern]. With his returning weight his badly needed...
...misdoubt I have gone too far. My optimist has carried me away and led me to overshoot the mark. The last paragraph is not true. The man who politely but firmly declines to sit in an old-fashioned chair to learn: is he worth educating? Can he be educated? Who dare answer? Frederic Cunningham...