Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They thronged to take part in an old political ritual: los besamanos, or hand-kissing, congratulations for the man chosen to run the country for the single six-year term that Mexico's constitution allows...
...away can keep a condor from its nest all day, and last year, when researchers attempted to weigh a two-month-old chick at its nesting site, the bird collapsed and died of shock and acute heart failure. Moreover, the California condor has yet to perform its mating ritual in a cage. Last month the state fish and game commission approved a more modest intervention: two birds to be radio-tagged and only three kept for breeding during the first year, one of them to be mated at the Los Angeles Zoo with Topa Topa, the only California condor...
...farmer unearthed a strange item in the Syrian sands: a snarling lion carved from gray basalt. He dug a little further and found a ritual basin ringed with marching warriors and a banquet scene. The pieces ended up in the national museum at Aleppo...
...Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual. Steaks or jambalaya are served, the joshing among old friends is ceaseless, and wagers seldom
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...