Word: ringed
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Mortification, an ancient Catholic tradition, was well known in Spam when Opus Dei was born. It was in Madrid, on Oct. 2, 1928, that Hospital Chaplain Escrivá received an instantaneous vision of the Opus Dei concept as church bells began to ring. Escrivá's idea, a reaction to the priest-dominated Spanish church, was to encourage the laity to play an important role in the church. "God led me by the hand," he said later. "Quietly, little by little, until his castle was built." Escrivá moved his headquarters to Rome in 1946 to make the movement...
...talk about it. The complexity gave many Radcliffe girls an easy excuse to postpone such activities, with great relief, since sex was closely connected with commitment and marriage--a direction many of us were not interested in following right away. There was no pressure to "have a ring by graduation", unlike the reputed atmosphere at many girls' colleges. Many of us who stuck with college through senior year had many things we wanted to do after college...
...sort of caricature of second-class citizenship. The office is, in fact, a parody of the subordination that women have endured in the past as wives and officeworkers. Again, the man would have all the power and responsibility, and the woman would sit around waiting for the phone to ring...
...number of the medical examinations administered to Caribbean students have been tainted by widespread cheating. Last summer, 9,000 foreign-trained students had to retake tests that allow them to practice in the U.S. because nearly half had seen the questions beforehand. Then in December, U.S. investigators cracked a ring of American and Dominican officials selling bogus diplomas (up to $27,000 for an M.D.). The trail led to two of the Dominican Republic's most successful universities. Last month the schools were closed, their administrators jailed and all student transcripts seized. The action stranded about 900 U.S. students...
After accepting that, of course, you can sit back, smile, and watch with wide eyes. With all the glittering costumes and the rotating mirrored sets, however, the extravagance at times seems almost embarrassing. The book is just too silly, and quite a few of the songs ring flat in the contemporary ear. Among the notable exceptions to this are some familiar hummable-or perhaps more appropriately, toe-tapping-numbers, including "We're in the Money," Lullaby of Broadway," Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and the title song...