Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild ritual of hazing gives the freshman an immediate place in college life as well as in the continuum of Dartmouth tradition. He must wear his beanie and nametag, move furniture for the upperclassmen, keep off the grass, and attend all rallies. There is nothing rough and tumble about the scheme, but it gives him a great sense of class solidarity as well as something out of the ordinary to think about...
...palace on the city heights, the new archbishop took his vows before the Quebec Metropolitan Chapter. Then, changing from robes of violet to robes of white, he proceeded to the nearby Basilica of Notre Dame (the same church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...
...Britons appeared before government bodies yesterday but with totally diverse intent. One, the British Colonial Secretary, cried "horror and revulsion" in reporting to Commons the execution of two British Army sergeants in Palestine. The other, King George VI, told the Privy Council, in a 175-year-old ritual, that he and his wife had approved of the November marriage of their daughter...
...that was probably the most wide-awake the tea business has ever been. The British, who have dominated it since tea became their national beverage in the 18th Century, have always conducted the business in a gentlemanly, conservative manner, as unchanging as the ritual of tea drinking.* But last week the Big Five that compete for the U.S. tea market-Lipton, A. & P., Standard Brands, Salada and Tetley-were shocked into Bodhidharmian wakefulness by the prospects of a world-wide tea shortage...
Walk up the Nile. "He repeats this ritual twice in the day's first prayer (at sunrise), four times in the second (at noon), four times in the third (mid-afternoon), three times in the fourth (sunset), four times in the fifth and last (about an hour and a half after sunset). The week's most important prayer is at noon on Friday, when Moslems fill the mosques to overflowing. Inside the mosques are fountains, at which the Moslem washes in a prescribed sequence: hands, mouth, nose, face, right arm, left arm, head, ears, right foot, left foot...