Word: stripe
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...Allen, the 1993 Ivy League Co-Player of the Year. Allen leads the team in scoring (at 16.6 points per game) and nearly engineered an upset of Massachusetts in the first round of the NCAA tournament in 1993. He also shoots a deadly 89 percent from the free-throw stripe and collects 5.5 rebounds per game, good for second on the team...
...next 3:36, Harvard shot better from the charity stripe than it had all game, hitting eight of ten free throws. Dan Morris sank four of four shots during that time, while Terrence Mann also nailed both of his attempts...
Colgate, in contrast, took advantage of its trips to the charity stripe. Colgate's overall free throw percentage stood...
...Kiichi Miyazawa and Toshiki Kaifu, lost the job trying to accomplish that feat, and the Diet was full of wily politicians determined that Hosokawa would fare no better. But the doubters underestimated the extent to which the scion of an aristocratic landowning family was a politician of a new stripe. Nor did the skeptics anticipate that Hosokawa's unprecedented popularity would give him the authority he needed to accomplish the heretofore unthinkable...
Like most any president, Clinton was elected partly because of his campaign promises. To observers, Clinton seemed like a liberal stripe of New Democrat--someone truly trying to relive the Roosevelt legacy. His ideas were particularly appropriate to the depressed economic times. But his actions have not spoken as loud as his words...