Word: rites
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...always been, too, a form of madness. But until this century, the world has been more inclined to consider the necessity of war, the glory of it, at any rate the inevitability of it, before pausing to reflect on its insanity. War was an adventure and a rite of passage...
Declared Eleanor Smeal of Pittsburgh, housewife and president of the 65,000-member National Organization for Women: "Houston was a rite of passage." Ruth Clusen of Green Bay, Wis president of the League of Women Voters, struck the same theme: "Even for women who are outside organizational life, who don't see themselves as part of the women's movement, something has happened in their lives as a result of this meeting whether they realize...
...sure enough, Coke's announcement barely made, Royal Crown Cola, also of Atlanta, tried to do Coke one lesser. It said that its Diet Rite Cola, the first diet soft drink ever (1962), will also be sweetened with aspartame and will contain no caffeine or, another first, sodium...
Aspartame, 200 times as sweet as sugar, has had a bitter journey since being accidentally discovered in 1965 by a Searle scientist researching an ulcer drug. Aspartame-sweetened Diet Rite and diet Coke have already been sold in Canada, and diet Coke has also quenched thirsts in Ireland and Scandinavia, but the U.S. introduction had been held up by the FDA, which was wary after its approval years earlier of cyclamates and saccharin. Aspartame won FDA acceptance in 1974, only to be pulled back after some scientists voiced concern that the substance might cause brain damage...
...ceremony may reflect a basic misunderstanding about the event. If bride and groom repeat the same vows their parents repeated, the vows they may expect their children to repeat, and if the same tears are shed now that were shed five generations before at the same rite, then the ceremony has its continuity and resonances. The formality may be boring, but it is not meaningless...