Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boosted by its bigger bottle and sweeter-than-Coke taste while bright young sales specialists were shipped to the area by Pepsi President Alfred N. Steele. Now in many cities it is a nip & tuck race, although Coke still outsells Pepsi in the area. This year, on a single feast day, Egyptians guzzled some 2,000,000 bottles of Pepsi...
...notice that you remain faithful to the usual American stereotype of the "prim" BBC [TIME, June 23] ... What American radio station would dare to broadcast the BBC's unexpurgated dramatization of the Trimalchio's Feast episode from the Satyricon of Petronius? On what American network could one expect to find Bertrand Russell debating the existence of God with a Jesuit priest...
After prolonged ceremonies, a lavish celebration is prepared. The people cut bamboo to fence a dancing area, and build covered seats and sleeping couches all around its margin. An elaborate feast is made ready. The warriors braid their hair, at a sign from the elders, the drums roll and the warriors parade around the dance area showing to their fellow citizens the heads that they have taken...
Assured, too, is the happiness of the still unnamed. After the feast is over, names are distributed to all the children who need them. The jawbones of the persons who wore them last are hung around the little ones' necks in cotton bags. When children misbehave, their mothers can usually get them in line by threatening to take these most-prized possessions away...
Soon the affair added international implications. Citizens of Grammont, Belgium, reported that they consumed 50 at their annual "Feast of Der Krakelinge." No upstarts in the field Grammonters began the ritual in the 14th century...