Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson nine got a taste of what its competition in this year's NCAA District I playoffs will be like as they took on Yankee Conference champ UMass yesterday at Soldiers Field. It wasn't exactly a feast, but UMass dished up enough hits, walks and errors to satisfy Harvard's appetite, serving the Crimson a 5-4 victory...
What happens next between the White House and the press? Despite the Administration's seemingly conciliatory attitude, no love feast is in prospect. A long history of bitterness and distrust cannot be swept away quickly. Yet if the Administration can outgrow the anger reflex set off by even routine criticism and allow newsmen more access at the White House, a degree of mutual respect can develop...
Since the first encounter between Indian and white men, religion has played an important role in their relationship. The Pilgrims' Thanksgiving feast had religious undertones, although it is unlikely that the Massachusetts Indians understood them...
...Arab robes instead of his customary military uniform, Numeiry damned the killers in terms designed to have maximum emotional impact on his people. Alluding to the Sudanese custom of slitting an animal's throat when butchering it for a feast, he said that the commandos had "slaughtered their hostages like goats." Then, he added, they had left their corpses "to rot" for more than one day (an insult to the Moslem practice of burying the dead within 24 hours). Sudanese law provides for capital punishment in first-degree murder cases, but Middle East observers think that heavy prison sentences...
...This nadir of decadence...this feast of carrion and squalor...this Sodom and Gomorrah gone wild before the fire... this is one throat that deserves to be cut." With that, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Joel Tyler ruled: "I readily perform the operation in finding the defendant guilty as charged...