Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerful speaker of the California assembly, Brown had agonized over which of three designer suits to wear to his swearing in. He finally decided to have Polaroids taken to see which suit would photograph better. The winner: a $2,600 single-breasted charcoal-gray Brioni with a brown pencil stripe. Haberdasher Wilkes Bashford, a longtime Brown outfitter, provided the final, Caesarean touch at a preinauguration party: a wreath of laurel. "I take my job pretty seriously," said Bashford, "and I missed one accessory." The ebullient Brown...
Although Benton padded his scoring average at the charity stripe down the stretch, it was not enough to out-do a Harvard offense that saw four players reach double figures. Coupled with a tremendous defensive performance, this was the recipe Harvard needed to get back to its winning ways...
...effort down the stretch cutting an 11-point Dartmouth lead to five behind six Tim Hill points. But the team came up short as lonergan closed out the scoring with four clutch free throws in the final 16 seconds--he was a perfect 11 of 11 from the charity stripe for the night. Dartmouth ..70 Harvard...
That turned out to be an empty hope, as Providence shot a stunning 85 percent from the charity stripe for the game, missing just one foul shot in the second half...
After a Lucking trey and a couple of foul shots got Army within four, the Cadet touch from the charity stripe vanished, and with it their momentum. Over the course of the last five minutes of the half Army went 4-for-9 from the line, including a stretch of 0-for-5 from their best foul shooter, Lucking. Army went 7-17 for the half from the line. Harvard, meanwhile, hit 7-of-8 from the line, a pleasant surprise...