Word: striping
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...movement. But it turned out that the radical left was quite sexist, relegating the ‘girls’ to traditional get-the-coffee, type the letters roles. This signaled to all of us that sexism runs deep and symbolized the subordinate role that males, whatever their political stripe, thought should be our lot. Look, Sandra Day O’Connor graduated third in her class at Stanford Law and the only job she could get out of law school was as one of the ‘girls’ in the secretarial pool at a law firm...
...same hostility to the Mullahs in Tehran that led the Reagan administration to send an emissary to Baghdad - a certain Mr. Rumsfeld - to make nice with Saddam Hussein and offer support against the common foe.) The assumption was half-right, of course - Sunni radicalism of the Wahabi stripe certainly is innately conservative, in social and religious terms, but that doesn't necessarily make it a natural ally...
HANOVER, N.H.—Reka Cserny stood behind the charity stripe, knees slightly bent, squaring her shoulders towards the basket. In the stillness of Leede Arena, a single voice began to bellow from the stands...
Despite its difficulties from the floor, the Crimson still had a legitimate chance to knock off the top team in the Ivy League. But Harvard—which was shooting a conference-leading 72.5 percent from the charity stripe entering the night—went cold from the line, shooting just 13-24 (54.2 percent), including 7-16 (45.7 percent) in the second half...
...Crimson—which entered the weekend leading the Ivy League in free-throw shooting at 72.5 percent but was hurt by a 13-24 performance Friday night against Princeton—hit just nine of its 19 attempts from the charity stripe...