Word: ritual
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Circumcision is, of course, nothing new. Egyptian priests practiced it as a purification rite more than 4,500 years ago. To this day, it is an important religious ritual in Islamic and Jewish communities worldwide. Circumcision became popular in the U.S. in the early 1900s, in the belief that it promoted good hygiene and discouraged masturbation. World War II veterans swore by its health benefits in unsanitary tropical conditions. Currently, more than two-thirds of U.S. infant boys are circumcised...
...chagrin of University officials and the glee of many Canaday Hall residents, a 100-pound piece of the Memorial Church bell broke off last Friday, temporarily ending the church's ritual ringing and nearly crashing through its roof...
...Confederate Knights of America, to be called the Texas Rebel Soldiers. Brewer was King's first recruit, the government says, and Berry was the second. William Matthew Hoover, a fellow inmate of King's and an Aryan Brotherhood member, testified that King may have been planning an initiation ritual for his new gang that included kidnapping a black man, driving him to the woods and killing him. "They have to take someone out," Hoover testified. "Blood in, blood out. You have to spill blood to get in, and you have to give blood...
...ability to delight in the mundane with a narrative that manages to be at once child-like and worldly. A walk through town becomes a symphony of fragrance and image. The boy's naivete is amusingly depicted during a lazy afternoon when the boy regards a pigeon mating ritual as something akin to a World Wrestling Federation grudge match...
...ritual that takes place at the end of every Harvard women's basketball game. Win or lose, the Crimson gathers in the center-court circle, and the players raise one arm each, bringing their hands together above the center of their group with a lone index finger protruding from...