Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, tailgates have always been a large partof Hurley's game-day ritual...
...always been thus. In this twice-a-year ritual of calling, I have often failed to raise funds sufficient for much more than a snack. Often I would gripe to myself that they had given me the dregs from the list; realistically, I also attributed these dismal results to my own weak salesmanship. This time, things started no better. Of the first dozen classmates I called, not one answered the telephone. Where were all those likely donors when I wanted them? To have nothing to show after a half-hour's work further depressed my already low expectations...
...house, and we began talking to each other more often. While I used to call only to tell them about the funny things happening around campus, I began to share with them even the more mundane aspects of college life. Soon, the phone call from home became a daily ritual...
...crowd of diplomats gathered in the Wye Plantation's conference room two weeks ago for the ritual photo op that launched the latest Middle East peace talks, two men were missing: CIA Director George Tenet and the agency's Tel Aviv station chief were hiding out upstairs, waiting for the reporters and photographers to clear out so they could slip back into the meeting unnoticed...
...teammates an apology. Even at the very end of the season, when they were embarrassing the Padres in the Series, there was catcher Joe Girardi, squatting on the field while pitchers nailed his body with wild throws that he could block only with his body--a practice drill-hazing ritual that most catchers perform only during spring training...