Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradition is "that a successful President is elected for two terms and then voluntarily renounces a third term. . . . The ritual calls for placing the President in a position where to the infinite regret of all concerned he voluntarily renounces a third term...
...Crimson squad will leave for Middlesex School in Concord immediately after a short workout in the Stadium today. There the last Harvard football captain who led a winning team against Yale will repeat the ritual of drinking a toast to the present grid leader. Bobby Green, captain of last year's team which won a 7 to 0 victory in New Haven, will drink to Torbie Macdonald...
...reaches his majority at 18, greeted the reincarnated pontiff with due ceremony. From a golden bowl the regent drew one of numerous bamboo slips which, if a proper choice had been made, would bear the name of the new Dalai Lama. Sure enough, it bore Tanchu's. This ritual the visiting Chinese watched contentedly. By establishing a Chinese as Dalai Lama they had, for what it was worth, underscored the influence China has long claimed over chill, far, out-of-the-world Tibet...
...year-old peasant boy named Tanchu, "quiet mannered with bright penetrating eyes." Now Tanchu will live in a gold-domed penthouse atop the Potala, his massive fortress-palace at Lhasa, spend the next 13 years under the lama regency learning about his previous incarnations and the intricate Lamaist ritual. If he reaches the age of 18 he will be consecrated, rule for the rest of his days...
...such he will be accorded honors only less than those due a visiting ruler. A tank escort, a military guard at the Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull, the personal attentions of Chief of Staff Malin Craig are part of the Washington ritual. Ranking generals will then accompany him on an aerial tour of U. S. Army posts, with appropriate reviews and banquets...