Word: ritualizes
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...Carrabino-and most athletes-it doesn't matter how it works; only that it does work. They call it superstition, they call it technique, or they call it fate. But whatever the ritual, athletes need it to perform...
...your habits are correct, your game will be most comfortable," Carrabino says. Last year's Ivy Players of the Year was very accustomed to his one-hour nap after the pre game meal. It was his ritual...
...Even in the very important meets we had against St. John's and Villanova, I never had time to change," says the 66-3 coach. Still, it did not become a ritual until one meet at which he had time to change out of his suit...
This ecumenically significant ritual arose for distinctly unecumenical reasons. In the late 1970s some conservative members of the Episcopal Church (the U.S. branch of Anglicanism) broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived...
...dirt and dust, drawing colours from the heart of the stone, their chance mosaic was far richer than the asphalt's colourless monotony." Winter is a cause of wonderment as sleighs move silently through the snow-hushed city. Finally comes the happiest of seasons in Russia, spring, with its ritual opening of windows. "Fresh spring air, wild and cool, fills the room, bringing with it the city's bright polyphony of voices, bells, and squealing wheels . . . the pulse of the living town...