Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florida, faced by more than a thousand tearful mourners, Ronald Reagan performed one of those tasks he does best. Honoring young Americans who have lost their lives in one of their country's fitful attempts to assert itself in a troubled world has, alas, become for him a practiced ritual. Speaking somberly of the latest tragedy, and of the latest set of victims he called heroes, the President asked, "Why did this happen...
...final blow came when a Washington Post reporter called campaign officials midweek with evidence of a recent liaison between Hart and a Washington woman. The threat of further revelations prompted Hart and his plucky wife Lee to suspend campaigning in New Hampshire and fly to Denver for the ritual hoisting of the white flag...
...believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying women by making them believe so too. He has only one love, the marquise, and she is less a companion than a rival. Rickman and Duncan are at once captivating and appalling. Theirs is a black-widow-spider courting ritual of conquests and abrupt abandonments...
...uniquely American ritual. A concerned and curious citizenry gathers in an electronic version of a Colonial town meeting to watch their elected representatives grill Government officials, high and low, about a sorry episode in contemporary history. The viewing can be painful yet mysteriously exhilarating, boring at times yet somehow fascinating. It is an odd self- flagellation, but out of it can emerge a catharsis. The Government's secrets are exposed, its actions explained, condoned or condemned. The issue is faced. The nation moves...
...large number of top players in this year's draft would seem to make each one less valuable. But Rickey is immune to the iron laws of economics, and he boldly goes where no man has gone before: $60, then $65 and finally $69. The auctioneer intones his ritual "Going once, going twice . . ." Everyone looks at the Amaros...