Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been around since at least the 15th century B.C., when it was used in China as an anesthetic, a ritual potion, a condiment and an intoxicant. As it moved on to India and beyond, it was applied to all manner of miseries: allergies, rheumatism, falling hair, tapeworm, leprosy, gonorrhea, failing memory and dandruff. Today marijuana is being considered as a treatment to reduce eyeball pressure in glaucoma patients and to reduce vomiting by cancer patients receiving drug therapy...
...after the NIOC manager delivered his tribute to his revolution-minded employees, an oil truck burrowed through a fierce blizzard on the Zagros mountain road from Khuzestan to Tehran. At the mountain hamlet of Zalian, the driver came to a stop. Inside a shelter, he performed the ritual Muslim ablutions. Then, barefoot, the worshiper stepped onto a spotless linoleum platform and began his prayers. Afterward, he explained that he was willing to brave the storm to get badly needed heating oil to Tehran-but not out of any love for the new civilian government. Said the trucker...
...either the name of the dance or the provenience of the troupe that passed through Hilles on Saturday night. The dance is properly referred to as an Interpretative Bubble Dance, not, as you so crudely put it, a "balloon dance." The dance is an old and respected North House ritual; while we are open to dancers from everywhere, to the best of our knowledge none of us is affiliated with Adams House. In light of the growing literature on the Bubble Dance, including an extensive anthropological study done under Prof. Vogt, the Crimson's ignorance is, as ever, appalling. Holmes...
...What slightly unusual pre-game ritual did Lew Alcindor go through before every game of his rookie season...
...courtly manner of a Spanish grandee. "Connie" was a man who loved ballroom dancing and opened almost all new Hilton hotels by taking to the empty dance floor with an attractive partner to perform an obscure European dance, the Varsoviana, which he regarded as a good-luck ritual...