Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill also kept the pot boiling as the champion of Republicanism in labor. He was chairman of the Hoover and Landon labor committees, was mentioned in 1944 as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate. A good twenty-five years ago, he revised the Brotherhood's entrance ritual to exclude Communists...
Lancaster & Co. flit in & out of Riff disguises, playing hob with tribal ritual and aplomb. Legionnaire Roland (Bullfighter and the Lady) feints through a free-for-all brawl, performing impromptu veronicas with a cape. A sexy blonde paralyzes the Legion by sashaying into the fort like a burlesque queen heading down the runway. All that is missing-and it seems ready to appear at any moment-is the sight of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in burnooses with a few words to say about the script...
Fifteen times during the past three weeks, Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee set out on a little ritual. He would proceed to the suite of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, enter, sit down by the Premier's bedside, talk for an hour or two, then depart...
This dangerous seed sprouted strongly in the Mound D village. Generation after generation, its priests grew more despotic. More & more elaborate grew the curious pottery that was the ritual furniture of the religion from across the sea. Some of the pots represented animals, both realistic and stylized. Others were abstract shapes like Japanese lanterns or spheres pierced with holes...
...newly dead bodies. Other victims were buried unburned. Before the pious orgy was over, the mound contained 50 skulls and perhaps 100 whole or partly cremated bodies. When their frenzy had passed, the villagers moved away. No later mound in the region has yielded sacrificed bodies and such elaborate ritual pottery. One such experience was enough; their bloody religion from across the sea never flourished in Georgia again...