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Word: striped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are only examples of possibilities. All may succeed; all may fail. There is no one "solution" to the energy problem. Zealots of every stripe have done the nation a disservice by touting their pet ideas (conservation, nuclear power, solar power, co-generation or whatever) as the solution and denigrating every other idea. Their competing overenthusiasms have confused an already difficult debate. The task is to devise a truly comprehensive energy program, investigating every feasible idea and pouring time and money into those that seem most promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking Anew At The Nuclear Future | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson and setting the tempo, Harvard built an eight-point lead midway through the first stanza. The Bruins' Chuck Mack sunk several long-distance jumpers to keep the offensively impotent Brown five in the ball game. Mack's effort, along with 88 per cent team accuracy from the charity stripe brought the Bruins to within three, 33-30, as the opening period came to a close...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Cagers Dump Brown | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...series' creators have wisely retired him from action. In Delta House, Bluto has fled Faber forever, to be succeeded by a younger brother known as Blotto. Josh Mostel, who plays the sibling, shares Belushi's girth but is otherwise attempting to create an "animal" of a different stripe. Where Bluto guzzled beer, Blotto guzzles beer bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Princely Palaces, Animal Houses | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Harvard then had a shot at cutting the lead to a marker when Jimmy Graziano, the 6t., 9-in. Gamecock center, missed both ends of a charity stripe situation...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Gamecocks Top Crimson; Rally Fails In 85-71 Loss | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

Freshman forward Dorris Woolery pumped in 26 points for the Crimson, connecting on ten of 22 from the floor and six of nine from the charity stripe. But the newcomer also committed 12 turnovers, joining mate Lisa Bernstein (13 miscues) in the debit department...

Author: By Jonathan J.ledecky, | Title: Bentley Bests Women in Cliffhanger | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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