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Word: ritualization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was all Burton needed to hear. There is a cheerful babble today as his Catholic ritual class, having completed an earnest discussion on the intricacies of Lenten observance, joins the rest of the congregation for coffee and doughnuts. A woman comes up to Burton carrying a beautiful, cruller-smeared little girl in her arms and tells a visitor how much help, both spiritual and practical, Burton gave her in adopting a Chinese child. He is embarrassed but obviously pleased. The present and the future both look pretty good. "The important thing," he says, "is I know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES HEAVEN EXIST? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

March, however, is also the month of spring training, that annual ritual of renewal on the verdant fields of the sunny South. Snapping gloves and cracking bats seem to force the spring even for those of us bracing for the next Noreaster. When the boys of summer return, winter seems a passing memory...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: If They Build It | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

This is a serious problem for any hockey program. Home is supposed to be a happy haven for a team, a place where ritual yellers conglomerate, an automatic catalyst for better hockey. You look at this season's Harvard performances, though, and you'll see that they tended to get better--and guttier--whenever the Crimson was forced to bus out of Cambridge...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Section 12: Chapter 11 | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...past in an Armani suit, barely nodding as he passes out of sight into some building you've never noticed before. Your familiar drab red sidewalks and dreary staircases are suddenly pounded by Bali shoes, crunching your Doc Martens, pointing their way to Wall Street, engaged in a spring ritual called Recruiting...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Gateway to the Good | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...Marine, I realize civilians will never understand why the pinning ritual in the Marine Corps is condoned. I don't think an explanation is in order, because the military doesn't live by the same set of rules as the rest of society. The most tragic thing that has happened is that an undisciplined slob betrayed his own by making videotapes that were shown outside the barracks. GERALD SMETANA Chetek, Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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