Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playgoer were unfamiliar with the story, Serban's version might convince him that he had happened upon some weird and obscure tribal ritual...
Well, while you were inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon your liver about sixty guys dressed in Crimson were going through a ritual known as "playing football." People ask football players "do you play football," and football players answer, "yes, I play football," but unless you've "played football" you really don't understand what an incredibly complex ritual "playing football...
...entire ritual is choreographed by a little fellow, the cox, who invariably has a loud, hoarse voice and more than likely chooses to' bark his commands six inches from your...
Summitry has been in bad odor of late, criticized as a worthless exercise at best, or an outright danger at worst. But in an era of increasing global interdependence, the ritual gathering of government leaders serves one unquestionably valuable purpose: it enables them to take one another's measure at first hand, to size up their fellow leaders' abilities and weaknesses...
...cause death." Electric chairs now wait for the some 58 inmates on Texas' death row, and Representative Ben Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person to death is a horrible procedure." Even proponents of the death penalty could hardly quarrel with that assertion, but historians might fault Grant's chronology. It was more than 23 centuries ago that Plato recounted how the cold began in the feet, moved...