Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of his first fight, Luis Miguel lay late in bed, eating nothing, drinking black coffee laced with cognac. At 2 o'clock his servants began the elaborate ritual of dressing him. At 4 o'clock he stood in the sunlit arena, facing a capacity crowd of 50,000 and a patter of unenthusiastic applause. Dominguin looked coolly at the crowd, and crossed himself. The gates opened and the first bull charged...
...Krock himself; he has his own Mr. Politics. Every election night in the Times city room, Krock, 66 and a veteran of a mere 25 years on the Times, turns for guidance to a real oldtimer. "When will you call it, Jim?" asks Krock in his election night ritual. Only when 76-year-old James A. (for Andrew) Hagerty calls it does Krock write his story naming the election winner. "I've always followed him completely," says Krock, "and he's never wrong. He has an instinct [that makes him] the top political reporter...
...fight hostility and suspicion not only from the government but also from its readers; they could not believe that any magazine backed by whites was up to any good. Drum is still occasionally criticized by readers. Once when it charged that some witch doctors were encouraging tribal ritual murder, the editors had to placate a delegation of seven witch doctors who went to Drum's editorial office in full raiment to protest strongly the "slur on a noble profession...
Officially, the convention took a dim view of ancient "prescriptions" in which parts of the human body, charred and powdered, are used. The advertising of such muti (medicine) has just been forbidden by the South African government. Ingredients for this muti are usually obtained by ritual murders, of which there have been a dozen in Basutoland alone this year. The witch doctors in convention assembled asked the government to lift the advertising ban on muti. They forgot to explain why it is all right for them to use human organs, but wrong for the "quacks" (nonmembers of the Dingaka Association...
Last week a 14th witness appeared under subpoena for what he called "this unpleasant ritual." He was ex-Communist Agent Whittaker Chambers. Had David Zablodowsky, a $14,600-a-year director of U.N. publications, been a member of the Soviet underground in the U.S.? the committee counsel asked. Yes, replied Chambers, Zablodowsky worked in an apparatus that procured forged passports and other papers for Russian agents...