Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Jock McGovern refused to sit down at the Speaker's request, he was ejected from the House of Commons in a shirt-tearing, low-comedy uproar involving himself & friends v. the Sergeant-at-Arms and elderly assistants in ritual tail coats...
...been speaking, picked his way hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...
...flower beds and thus reached the coast of Swampscott. They proceded to a large red the rock. Then each individual began to hack away the rock with his hammer. The Leader picked up a small piece; "Silurian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." And the group wrote in their little black books. This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped and fell down a deep chasm into...
...With the ritual mock modesty of all incoming Japanese Premiers, Hideki Tojo declared: "I am awed with trepidation at my limited ability." But his subsequent actions made it sound as if he really meant it. His supposedly brash, testy Army Government proposed to continue conversations with Washington looking toward "peace with justice." The Government-controlled Japan Times and Advertiser sent up a gaseous trial balloon offering all the warring nations a "last chance" to have Japan mediate World War II. Most startling of all, Premier Tojo's ostensibly fire-eating Army Government called for an extraordinary session...
Before 1908 mixed marriages were not questioned in Quebec, because in 1741 Pope Benedict XIV declared that in The Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation" was still in force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject...