They had some pretty long playoff beards to show it -- to show for it.
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In egalitarian Pushtun society, where prestige is won in battle, these grey-beards initially had limited authority.
"Beards are hideous things if you ask me, " says Attree, who sports a traditional English moustache.
"That show sparked a lot of interest and meant that beards really became fashionable, " she says.
The team prohibits beards for its minor-leaguers but relaxes the rule at the major-league level.
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For Muslims, imitating the faith's founder is also given as a reason for growing beards.
In recent years, many have grown long beards, and substituted team prayer sessions for training.
The men are easily identifiable by their beards and turbans, a tradition that's lasted for 500 years.
In June Somalia's Islamic militants ordered men in Mogadishu to grow their beards and trim their moustaches.
The idea of an Islamist takeover terrifies Tunisia's liberal-minded middle-class, which eschews veils and beards and suchlike.
While playoff beards have spread to professional football, basketball, and soccer, they are still relatively rare in baseball.
Among men in Union Grove, beards were the norm so any clean-shaven man was apt to look young.
This was a place where men could be men and get their beards trimmed with a straight razor.
Rabid hockey fans, they grew beards in imitation of their countrymen who play in the National Hockey League.
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Since that order, the barbers stopped shaving off beards and only trim hair.
While he pursues talks with Iran, Republicans fret, Iran's leaders chuckle behind their beards and carry on enriching uranium.
"Mahathir's talk about scarves and beards surprised and confused many delegates, " said Nazri.
While the issue of more partymen sporting beards seems trivial, it is not.
Secular regimes that govern mainly Muslim populations often ban or strongly discourage beards.
Men were also forced to grow long beards and attend numerous prayer services during the course of any single day.
For the uninitiated, playoff beards refer to the tradition of a hockey player not shaving during the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The natural extension of Movember (pun intended) is the trend toward handlebar mustaches, huge Father Christmas-style beards and lavish goatees.
The technology is so precise, Atick says, that it can't be fooled by disguises such as wigs or fake beards.
For years, beards were frowned upon as symbolic of the Islamist movements that Mubarak considered a threat to his reign.
"Wherever there are Muslims, wherever there are people with beards, people who pray, they are labeled as terrorists, " Afsar said.
Encircling the moon, throughout the amphitheatre, these lanky figures stood or sat, their faces framed by beards or unkempt hair.
Men wear dark clothing that includes a long coat and a fedora-type hat and often have long beards and ear locks.
Prosecutors argued that the group cut the beards and hair of other members because hair carries spiritual significance, hence the hate crime.
People dress in a certain way, people carry themselves with their beards and their jewelry, and their clothes in a certain way.
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Like those brothers named Halls who had beards and made cough drops.
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