Word: ritually
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...weed, which Don Juan spoke of as an implacable female presence. The third was humito, "the little smoke"?a preparation of dust from Psilocybe mushrooms that had been dried and aged for a year, and then mixed with five other plants, including sage. This was smoked in a ritual pipe, and used for divination...
...wanted it badly enough to enlist in the Marines at 14, a career that ended without glory when his mother followed him to the training camp and reclaimed him. But when he was 17, his parents allowed him to quit school and leave for the Army, a time-honored ritual in coal-country. His father gave him a gruff word of advice; his mother didn't cry. Thus began a quarter of a century of excellence in service of America, service that has not yet ended...
...really surprised by Rabbi Magnin's ungracious and uninformed comment on Rabbi Siegel's appropriate choice of a Jewish statutory bracha (ritual blessing) to conclude his prayer at President Nixon's Inauguration [Jan. 29], but I am dismayed that TIME should have repeated and embellished the report of Rabbi Siegel's "kingly" blessing...
...changed, except for the invention of air conditioning, since Henry Flagler first laid a railroad span across Lake Worth in 1894 and opened up an idyllic new playground to his friends. From what is probably the world's richest island, now at the height of the two-month ritual known simply as The Season, TIME'S Peter Range reports...
...most of its 275 pages, it recalls a full and interesting life: a young German Jewish girl of good family marries a struggling farmer-soldier who later becomes Israel's Chief of Staff and then its Defense Minister. The book ends with a description of the somewhat humiliating ritual prescribed by the rabbinical divorce court where, in accordance with Jewish law, she is "cast out" by her husband, who then drops the get (divorce) papers into her cupped hands. Although the entire autobiography is being serialized in two Israeli newspapers, the main reason for its success is a candid...