Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some sort of "cultural exchange" (perhaps traders, slaves or refugees from the Weeden Island people in Florida), it acquired newfangled ideas that originated in the civilizations across the Caribbean. One item in this ancient Point Four program was the technique of making elaborate, artistic and useless pottery for ritual purposes. Another, unfortunately for the villagers, was an inkling of a grisly religion, dark with human sacrifice and priestly tyranny, which was often a feature of the high Indian cultures...
...doctrines to Britain, France and the U.S. Reform Jews pay scant attention to dietary laws, hold their services mainly in English, the principal one on Friday evening instead of Saturday (a few hold it on Sunday), and stress the ethical teachings of the prophets more than the ritual laws of Torah and Talmud. With the Reform Jews, the sense of being a chosen people is dim or extinct...
Like every Orthodox Jewish boy, he first learned the great monotheistic confession of faith which every devout Jew hopes to have the strength to repeat on his deathbed: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One." He learned the complex system of ritual blessings with which the Orthodox Jew sanctifies every important action of the day: the thanks on awakening (for the day, for the power of sight, for the creation of the earth, for the power to walk, for the renewal of his strength, for not being an idolator or a slave or a woman...
...World Series, U.S. sport's most celebrated annual ritual, was on. From Bangor to San Francisco, men gathered around television sets, elbowed along bars, huddled beside radios. Business was suspended, politics deferred, and idle conversation shushed. A weather bureau official studied the forecasts and solemnly announced that expected conditions-grey sky, a stiff northeast wind-were good for fastball pitchers, bad for curve-ballers...
...Yankees were elaborately unruffled. Reynolds deliberately went through the ritual of the pitcher-glaring at the man on second, tucking his chin down as if in thought. Suddenly, there was a swelling roar from the crowd. There on the base path Irvin was digging for the plate. In that paralyzed instant, the startled Reynolds looked up. Irvin was ten steps from home. Reynolds drew back his arm (eight steps) and threw hastily to Yogi Berra (six steps) and Irvin hurtled into his slide. Berra stretched for the high throw, and Irvin was across. With a roar of delight, the crowd...