Word: customs
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Perhaps somebody . . . should revive the custom of feeding people to the lions . . . so that our fellow American citizens who seem to have so thoroughly forgotten what America stands for, could further enjoy themselves...
Douglas retired to nurse his bruises-and to consider appealing to an old senatorial custom; if he opposes the appointments made against his recommendation, the Senate is likely to refuse to confirm Harry Truman's choices...
...Shah climbed into his No. 2 Rolls-Royce, set out for Teheran's Bank Melli Hospital. As his car drove through the gates, loving subjects performed a ceremonial operation: they deftly sliced the heads off two sheep and tossed them under the wheels, which (according to old Iranian custom) would bring good luck...
...West Germans managed to slip more than $74 million of strategic materials into the Soviet zone on an ostensibly "legal" basis, with the help of phony invoices, bribed or lax custom guards, intricate shipping techniques. On one occasion, 89 separate pieces of machinery were passed through West German custom guards; reassembled on the other side, they turned out to be a complete boiler factory. Other supplies move through "triangular trade"-a West German industrialist will ship a smelting plant, for example, to Belgium and from there it will be shipped to East Germany. In addition to this "legal" trade...
...saving mood, for it was busy examining its own budget. By voice vote and without a dissenting murmur, the House laid out $22.8 million for itself and another $37.5 million for general congressional expenses. There was $20,000 to provide a new trunk and two wooden footlockers (an old custom) for each Representative; $2,000 for ice; funds for subsidized (50?) haircuts; a $132,400 increase in the stationery allowance and a $700,000 increase in telephone and telegraph expenses; $199,500 for the Capitol Botanic Garden; $20,000 to complete the frieze around the inside of the Capitol dome...