Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress finally saves the settlers...
...practical advice: "The piece would enjoy an annual polishing with Bon Ami cleanser, probably as a rite at the vernal equinox, and it will not resent being inhabited by one or two contemplative beings. Enjoy...
...first came under fire he stood out as the perfect fighting animal, cold, cunning, ruthless, untiring, quick of decision, incredibly brave." Rommel emerged from World War I with only the rank of captain, but he sported a couple of Iron Crosses and the order Pour le Mérite, which the Kaiser reserved generally for heroes, e.g., Air Ace Manfred von Richthofen and high-ranking generals. When the Treaty of Versailles cut the German army down to 100,000 men, Rommel was one of 4,000 officers picked to stay...
...piece would enjoy an annual polishing (with Bon Ami cleanser), probably as a rite at the vernal equinox," he mused, "and it will not resent being inhabited by one or two contemplative beings, Enjoy...
...baker's daughter, the priest and the policeman. To foreigners A & P's vast supermarkets are among the wonders of the age; to the U.S. middle class, they are one of the direct roads to solvency. "Going to the A & P" is almost an American tribal rite...