Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down Chicago's State Street in their annual show of strength moved some of the biggest wheels in the nation's most powerful political machine. It was the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, but regardless of ethnic, racial or religious stripe, practically every precinct captain, ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched...
...Crimson cagers were in foul trouble right from the beginning of the contest. The Bruins outscord Harvard 13-1 from the charity stripe to more than make up for the Crimson's fine shooting...
Statistics echo the game's close score. The Elis outblundered Harvard in the turnover department, 18-15, but outshot the Crimson in the crucial second half, 56-40 per cent. Harvard barely controlled the boards, 33-32, though the Crimson had seven less chances at the charity stripe during the contest...
...putting some in a blind trust, and went north to Washington. He says he thought trying to effect efficient management in HEW would "turn me on, make my adrenalin flow." And when he was called to the White House, well, "they hadn't seen guys with my kind of stripe before," he says...
...hasn't got the symmetry of Marilyn Monroe or even a Campbell's soup can, but no matter. Willy Brandt, 62, former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned...