Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the Yale game, at the final team dinner of the season, when Puopolo rose to make his statement to the team, as is the custom for each senior, he said that winning the Yale game would be for him merely frosting on the cake. The cake itself, he said, was simply playing on the team. From someone else it might have been no more than a lofty phrase, a platitude. But for Andy Puopolo, as anyone who knew him could testify, it was the simple truth...
...Madame Mao's love of luxury appear every week for the benefit of China's 800 million men and women who live a spartan existence, clothed in the ubiquitous unisex padded jacket and trousers. It has been alleged that Chiang Ch'ing secretly ordered two dozen custom-made dresses in the space of one month, at a total cost of 760 yuan ($400). On a visit to the agricultural commune of Tachai, Chiang Ch'ing "arrived by special train with an entourage of 100 persons," recalled a local official. "Her personal effects had to be carried...
Following a long-standing tradition, the Eliot team arrived for the game fortified by alcohol, while beer was supplied at the sidelines by the Eliot House Committee. After the game the team celebrated its victory by jumping into a huge mud puddle outside Dillon Field House, a custom initiated last year in a similar puddle at Yale...
...muted colors that suggest a kind of flinty and puritan sincerity. Small wonder, then, that a large public considers Wyeth the Great American Artist-or that the opposition to him has been, in some quarters, as violent and irrational as the worship. For it is also the custom to attack Wyeth as a mere illustrator, dazzling the midcult beast with a mixture of sentimentality and cold manual tricks...
...royal hospital room wired for communication via satellite. Back in Chicago, meanwhile, emissaries of Qabus bin Said, 35, Sultan of Oman, were content merely to rent space on a 747. Of course, the plane was needed to haul off some of the Sultan's own purchases, including six custom-made Cadillac Sevilles, one Porsche, a 25-ft. ocean-going speedboat with trailer, and a Chevy truck. The merchandise seemed practical enough...