Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University at Maxwell Field, Ala. wanted one of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's 50? booklets: Economic Policies for National Defense. But the ritual of procurement was not so simple. The mailed request to the Chamber was on Order No. (01-600) 52-2274, based on Requisition No. LB 52-107, payable from Allotment No. 5723400 266-1443 P443-09 501-605. A four-page contract included with the order warned the Chamber about such things as discrimination in employment, patent infringements, the Eight-Hour Law of 1912. Five pages of Additional General Provisions dealt with contract termination, labor...
...type of testimony, as absurd and unfair as the accusations are. The country does not expect the Committee to call the maligned teachers to testify. Nor does it expect to see any actual criminal charges brought against the accused. Although wise thinkers and reputable jurists alike have deplored this ritual, we are no longer surprised when the ceremony goes...
...Club at St. Andrews, Scotland elected an American to be Club Captain: Francis Ouimet, 57, of Brookline, Mass., onetime captain of America's Walker Cup team, and first amateur to win the U.S. Open (1913). Ouimet will begin his one-year term next week after following through the ritual of "playing into office," i.e., going the 18-hole Old Course and tipping his caddy a pound note...
...boxing authorities have a set routine for soothing public anger whenever a fighter dies from a ring beating. The ritual calls for regrets, investigations, hearings, expert testimony and hopeful promises. Last week the New York State Athletic Commission had to begin the rites of atonement for the first time in 1951; Welterweight George Flores, 20, knocked out in Madison Square Garden,* died of a brain injury. Said the commission...
...Islam is as bare of major furniture as the inside of a mosque. Mosques are often decorated with intricately patterned and endlessly repeated geometrical designs. Similarly, Moslem teaching runs on about the hours and posture for prayers, when and how to perform ablutions and other helpful hints on morals, ritual and etiquette...