Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Segars Mill in the low country, the Segars clan performed the annual ritual of closing down the grist mill and padlocking the general store. As Clemson folks, they looked askance at other pilgrims making the journey to the state capital at Columbia; there was no telling who might be a Carolina sympathizer. There had been friction between the two factions since the day Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the state's rip-snorting governor of the 1890s, branded the university as a center of snobbery and helped found Clemson, a "heman" agricultural college with a strong emphasis on military training...
...popping flashbulbs and happy smiles. When that ceremony was done, the newlyweds trooped down to Manhattan's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, there were married all over again with double crowns and crown bearers. A brilliant reception at the Sherry-Netherland's Chanteclair Room added the final touch of ritual...
...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
Instead of manners based on privilege, the British, he said, have devised a new set of manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...vacuum left by the abandonment of religious ritual and social ceremony has been filled by a new rite-a worship of The Rules and the strange gods behind them. 'No, I'm afraid we're right out of those-we're waiting for our quota,' says the stationer, with a mixture of exasperation and reverence for the goddess Quota that was once accorded by anxious Greek farmers to Demeter, bringer of harvests. 'I'm full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor...