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Word: ritualization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good offer, he "seals" the packet, which pledges that he will talk to no more potential buyers until he presents the offer to the seller. If the deal is closed, the broker says "Mazel" (luck in Hebrew) and the buyer replies "Mazel un brucha" (luck and blessing), a ritual used around the world, whatever the ethnic background of the participants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diamonds Are Forever | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Classics spring trip has become a ritual for the team. In past years the Classics have travelled to Portugal and Puerto Rico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Classic Spring Trip: Vacationing at 'The Rock' | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...China Syndrome is not a disaster film in the style of The Towering Inferno nor Earthquake--it doesn't even rely on ritual seduction scenes to cement the plot. Lemmon and Fonda portray characters who are average people, holding perhaps better-than-average jobs, who act heroically when the circumstances demand it. Fonda is very believable as a success-oriented member of the "Me Generation," at first frustrated far more by her boss's fluffy conception of her than by his cover-up of her nuclear accident story. "I've got a pretty good job, and I fully intend...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Countdown To Meltdown... | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...subcommittee also proposed a course on African art and ritual, Clausen said...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Group Considers New Courses | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Nothing Happened | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

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