Word: ritualizes
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...ritual repeated thousands of times across the country, the workers of Somerville Ward 6, Precinct 3 were preparing for the 1,656 voters who were slated to show up yesterday...
...using the pumpkin in a ritual involving the underworld this weekend, and I'm going to be carving the pumpkin with wood-carving tools, so it needs to be smooth and fairly small," said Katja T. Esser...
...certain how Koetsu managed to find a place within this society as one of its principal tastemakers--as, in a sense, its artistic director. The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty. But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village...
...Arafat, too, has an opportunity to shore up his credentials on the seething Palestinian streets, which had grown openly hostile to his peacemaking efforts in recent weeks. That's a game the Arab League states are playing, too, using their weekend summit to appease their enraged citizenry with ritual denunciations of Israel and promises of $1 billion in aid to the Palestinians, but stopping short of breaking off any existing diplomatic or economic ties with Israel...
...Health workers in the Gulu and Kitgum districts are quarantining anyone manifesting the flu symptoms, diarrhea and vomiting that mark the onset of the disease, and have banned the communal cleansing ritual at the end of funerals. It's heartbreaking work for the medical personnel because the disease can't be treated, only contained. And the squalid refugee camps of northern Uganda - established to house people fleeing attacks by a sociopathic guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately...