Word: riting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Newly written polydox texts for children banish Bible stories as unedifying and untrue. Youths are taught that Abraham did not enter the Promised Land be cause of a covenant with God but because of a drought in Ur. Instead of the bar mitzvah (son of the commandments) rite, the polydox now use the baal mitzvah (master of the commandments), signifying that a youngster is able to decide for himself what...
...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...
...Greatest Free Show on Earth"--this stunning array of over 20 parades down New Orleans's broad avenues. And yet, more than other celebrations, Mardi Gras is largely a local affair, enjoyable for the thousands of visitors from across the country but significant also as a provincial rite of passage for the participants...
...himself. They buy orange robes at the ashram's boutique, then wash thoroughly. No one may approach the asthmatic guru with any trace of dust, perfume or hair oil. Two tall blonde vestals at the gate carefully sniff at all who seek entrance. A single cough during the rite can be the cause for ejection. Then, reports TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief...