Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When her eldest son Jimmy began running for governor of California, it became virtually mandatory that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt travel west and say a good word for the boy: the omission of such a rite would have given the Republicans a chance to boast that even his own mother wouldn't stump for him. But to Mrs. Roosevelt, who must reconcile the duties of motherhood with those of politics, the journey presented complications...
...Knights Templar, highest order within the Masonic York Rite, make use of the New Testament in their ritual. Other orders, within both the York and Scottish Rites, base their ritual on the Old Testament, affirm the existence of a Supreme Being, neither affirm nor deny the divinity of Jesus Christ...
...disturbing New Yorker short story, The Lottery. Crowding the TV screen with dramatic close-ups and using music scored for an unusual orchestra of organ and musical saw, Cameo took its audience into an isolated village of uncertain time and place to witness the celebration of an annual rite and its grim ending: the communal stoning-to-death of a luckless citizen...
...Page One and the editorial page of the bulky newspaper. The moment he had laid aside the body of the paper a masseuse stepped into the room. Reader Sulzberger, having laid his two favorite pages on the pillow, stole glances at them as she pummeled his back. When the rite was over, he sat up, and as the masseuse worked at the fingers of his right hand, stiff from a palm affliction, Sulzberger picked up the detached Page One of the Times in his left. Rapidly, his marble-bright blue eyes took in every story. When the masseuse moved...
...long review of Britain's economic position. He spoke steadily for two hours and 17 minutes, pausing only twice for bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads were nodding. Winston Churchill fidgeted fretfully, first slumping down in his seat, then drawing himself bolt upright to peer dully at the green carpet between his feet. When Cripps finished, there were only two cheerful men in the chamber-Cripps himself and Tory Chief Lord Woolton...