There was even a measure of satisfaction now in participating in the time-honored custom of taking leave of a friend.

I am unalterably for segregation, Mr. Flowers declared during his campaign, while promising to defend our time-honored customs.

At a news conference today, he referred to the time-honored custom of giving a President the people he wants as his Cabinet secretaries.

But many longtime experts on the Japanese crime scene say the descent into violence and the corruption of other time-honored customs have much deeper roots.

Occasionally, any one of the major commercial networks still observes the time-honored custom of showing a recent box office and critical smash as a movie special.

I profit from her only if that profit be a time-honored custom.

A complaint might also be registered about the fragmentary makeup of the program, which in time-honored choral custom offered many bite-size pieces.

Then follow a time-honored custom: change the subject.

Judge Kaye is doing battle with layers of time-honored if totally loopy legal customs, and the war is still half-won at best.

Her work brims with American Indian characters who teeter precariously on the border that separates time-honored customs from stark new realities.