Word: straights
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Over a three-and-a-half-minute span late in the first half, nine straight Harvard points came on free-throws, enabling the Crimson to grab its first lead with just under four minutes remaining...
Exhibit A: Urban Dictionary's most popular definition for "sissy" is "weak," while the second definition says it's "not always straight...
...Foxes, 40-35, in the second half but would never get closer than a 66-58 deficit following a three-pointer by junior co-captain Christine Matera, who posted a career-high 19 points in the contest. Junior Emma Markley added 16 points and 13 rebounds for her fourth-straight double-double of the season...
...perceived exclusion from wider French society. When the deaths of two minority youths fleeing police in nearby Clichy-sous-Bois sparked violence there, residents of housing projects in Aulnay and beyond followed suit, venting pent-up rage by torching cars, vandalizing property and battling riot police for 20 straight nights. Ever since, most of France has viewed towns like Aulnay as being synonymous with restless youth and crime...
...Crimson’s editors about the follow-up. He also raised concerns about what I had said to him during the reporting process. He suggested that by telling him, in that initial phone call, that he didn't have to talk about the future, I had straight-out lied to him. That would be a breach of journalistic ethics that could invalidate parts of my article...