Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what insane indoctrination has Shirley been subjected, that in her moment of truth she turned to the futile rite of baptism...
...researchers, working with grants from the Scottish Rite Foundation and the United States Public Health Service, also examined behavior patterns in non-Western cultures...
...abandoned the crushed wreck and stood on the floe, some 300 miles from land. The men tried dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale...
...Rite of Spring. Costumes for the revels run neither to elegance nor imagination: when they are not in bathing trunks, the boys wear deck pants, and the girls put on Bermuda shorts, usually one size too small. Not too surprisingly, little that is really calamitous happens to Fort Lauderdale or its student invaders. During his coffee break, one defender of the law was able, without looking very hard, to arrest five students for sousing in public. But last weekend, as police prepared to abandon their beach outpost until next season, their blotter listed few cases of more serious wrongdoing...
Probably nothing can head off an eventual sociological study of the Fort Lauderdale rite of spring. But one girl's comment should help. Asked why she made the migration, she answered with a simplicity that needs no analysis: "This is where the boys...