Word: backdoors
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What Glazer and his allies were unable to achieve at the ballot box, they were able to accomplish through dirty politics, resorting to shady backdoor political maneuvers to force out a popularly elected official, apparently just because they did not want to work with him—and some even resorted to threats...
With the game tied at 5-5 with 24:35 remaining, Harvard turned the ball over on a botched clear. Penn’s Chrissy Muller scooped up the ground ball and found the Quakers’ leading scorer, Ali Ryan, wide open on a backdoor cut, and Ryan scored the first of her three second-half goals. The Quakers weren’t done there. Penn ripped off another three consecutive goals, going on a 4-0 run overall to take the lead...
Then, there’s Princeton—the veritable tortoise to the Quakers’ hare. The Tigers’ offense has been a national sensation for quite some time for its superfluous backdoor cuts and deliberate tempo...
Although council parliamentarian E.E. Keenan ’07 repeatedly said that giving the grant was “backdoor discrimination” and violated the council’s constitution, members eventually voted to approve the grant 25-17, with one abstention...
...backdoor so I had a pretty quick reaction to it,” Tobe said. “It’s just another save you’ve got to make sometimes. It’ll make up for the bad goal in the second, I guess...