Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Germany, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in five cities Monday night, pressuring the ruling Communists to keep their reform promises in what for many has become a weekly ritual...
Some things are just too low tech to last. What could be more old-fashioned than wrestling a postage stamp out of its perforations, coating one's tongue with glue and watching the stamp come unstuck along the edges? Sure enough, that ritual is now headed the way of the penny postcard. Last week the U.S. Postal Service introduced EXTRAordinary Stamps, a line of peel-and-stick, self-adhesive postage stamps billed as "the most thoroughly researched and tested issue in U.S. stamp history." The new 25 cents first-class stamps will be test-marketed for 30 days...
...your peers. A woman of Adams House--Adams House!--has resolved to come here to New Haven to pray for victory. She doesn't even have a ticket; she is barred from the Yale Bowl. Her plan? To enter one of Yale's crumbling libraries and hold a Satanic ritual--a ritual calling upon all the powers of darkness...
Since the Law School ritual began several years ago, by 10 p.m. on Thursday nights there is standing room only in Harkness Commons. "I used to get here at nine and you couldn't get a seat," says second-year student Eric S. Goldberg...
...have this little ritual before each game," Landau says. "We like to slap our sticks together and give each other high fives. It motivates us for the game...