Word: rite
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...particularly in the Ukraine, long the source of the majority of Orthodox priests and much of the church's income. A schismatic bishop has proclaimed the rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which spurns Moscow's centralized religious rule. Even more threatening is the sudden resurgence of Eastern Rite Catholicism in the western Ukraine. The millions of Catholic believers follow Orthodox liturgy but are loyal to the Pope. After World War II, the Eastern Rite church was abolished at a Stalinist-controlled synod, followed by a bloody repression in which church property was given to the Russian Orthodox. Somehow...
Prominent business organizations represented in the group include Baybanks, the Bank of New England, New England Electric and Stride Rite, Shattuck said...
...lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds, and his band playing the march Garry Owen, then galloped to his dreadful rite of immortality at Little Big Horn. Sixty million buffalo were mindlessly slaughtered on the cinnamon land swells. When the plow came, the Dust Bowl was born...
...shock of Watkins' death was intensified by the venality of its alleged motive. According to police, the suspects are members of F.T.S. (an abbreviated obscenity), a Queens youth gang that requires its members to commit a mugging as an initiation rite. They were reportedly trying to raise cash to finance an evening of frolicking at Roseland, a nearby dance hall, where six suspects were arrested. Two others were rounded up later...
More than two hours long, the late Charles Mingus' Epitaph blends atonal passages and improvised solos in a style as challenging as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring...