Word: rites
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...tradition of hope extends from generation to generation all the way to time eternal. At least the Curse has gone on for so long that it seems like an ancient rite...
...Easter and I'm still giddily making my way through a lovingly prepared basket provided by my boyfriend, filled with faux grass and enough sugar to send an entire kindergarten class into shock. The springtime candies - chocolate bunnies, jelly beans and the delightfully ersatz marshmallow Peeps - are an annual rite of passage for me and my dentist. "Oh, hello, Jessica. I see you're here for your traditional post-Easter cleaning?" Others, however tend to view my basket fixation with some concern: How, they seem to be wondering, can a vaguely grown-up person consume so much sugar...
...rate--65%--of any attack sub in the Pacific Fleet. And the skipper proudly allowed re-enlisters to commemorate their return in almost any fashion they wanted. Be it parachuting out of an airplane or floating in full dive gear in the ocean, Waddle would be along for the rite of passage...
Summers at the prestigious Cape Cod League have become a rite of passage for Harvard pitchers. Walsh's former position as a pitching coach in the league has helped Crimson hurlers earn competitive spots...
...these days, Harlem is on the rise again, with Disney moving in, and Rite Aid and Magic Johnson's movie theater. And Starbucks and the Gap. And a revitalized Apollo Theater, and the fashionable houses of Striver's Row made fashionable again. And now, who should appear, ready to do business, but the Comeback Kid himself...