Word: rites
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...when the parched rice paddies sprout nothing but stubble, the Vietnamese seek revenge, rolling out their tanks in an effort to eliminate the 45,000 armed "nationalists" opposed to the Vietnamese-backed government of President Heng Samrin. But this year the Vietnamese have instigated something more than the usual rite of spring. In their most deadly and deliberate offensive yet, they have been training their guns not only on the insurgents but on unarmed civilians and even on neighboring Thailand...
...theater community has found a new rite of spring. On the last weekend of March, some 400 professionals-actors and agents, playwrights and directors, critics from every major U.S. publication and from a dozen foreign countries-convene in Louisville in hopes of seeing early productions of significant American dramas. The optimism is often justified. Since its inception six years ago, the Humana Festival of New American Plays has introduced, among other works, The Gin Game, Getting Out, Crimes of the Heart, Agnes of God and Lone Star, all of which have gone on to win a place in the repertoire...
...freebies lure students to Florida's rite of spring...
John Paul showed his support for the war-weary Christians of Lebanon by giving them a Cardinal, Antoine Pierre Khoraiche, 75, Patriarch of the Maronite Rite. Thailand and the Ivory Coast got their first Cardinals, and Oceania was represented by New Zealand's Thomas Stafford Williams. If the Pope chose a progressive archbishop in Bernardin, he also picked a conservative: Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 47, of Medellin, Colombia, is president of the bishops' conference in Latin America and an outspoken foe of priests who have become active in leftist politics...
...what has become an annual Reading Period rite, computer students are crowding the Science Center terminal room in a last-ditch effort to complete semester projects...