Word: rite
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...make a comment-as if one were needed-on how passionate idolatry can briefly unbalance youthful minds. To that end he requires poor Richard Thomas, known herein as Jimmy J., to strip, smear himself with river mud and encourage his pals to join him in a fake primitive rite designed to put them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit...
There is no surer or happier sign of spring and the surge of new life. In the lush bluegrass pastures of Kentucky, new foals test their spindly legs behind those famous white rail fences. In another annual rite, the great stables breed Thoroughbred stallions and mares imported from around the world...
...engaged in some mass rite of spring, hundreds of freshmen each year compete in that venerable tradition, the "Run For The Houses." This year, statistics indicate, 70 per cent of them will wind up in the winner's circle...
...that the first big rite of spring is over, all the anthroplogists are eagerly awaiting the next festival, the "Choosing of the Concentration...
...days before the auction, the remains of a much more famous man of God, St. Francis, were reburied after a special rite at the basilica in Assisi, Italy. The skeleton was first identified by Vatican experts in 1818. When the remains were exhumed so the grave site could be repaired, Pope Paul asked scientists to study them. Their findings: the saint, who died in 1226, was short and frail and Ms bones "very porous, denoting a form of malnutrition...