Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed with a folding-stock M-l carbine, changed Flight 85 from a routine run into a fantastic flying hegira that led all the way across the U.S. and then over the Atlantic to a bizarre conclusion in Rome. All through its strange progress, the changing track of Flight 85 compelled the attention of the earthbound: the FBI, air-traffic controllers, and-quite understandably -President Forwood Wiser of TWA, who sat out the 17-hour ordeal with other top company executives at the airline's Manhattan headquarters. Said a Federal Aviation Agency official: "That flight was handled...
...from their coq au vin, fish and chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting the moon...
...upside-down Faust, an itchy, gifted, compulsively discontented man who can do anything, but is damned if he does or he doesn't. Simpler souls may be content with noting that Tattersall has a vested interest in failure. And so does De Vries, for Hank's hegira through a series of professions allows the author to lampoon various American scenes and sideshows, sometimes with Swiftian savagery...
...George Romney went a slumming, theWhite House turned a shrewd distaff eye upon the countryside. Accompanied by a Cabinet-rank coterie, the President's wife last week took off on a four-day, seven-state Midwest trek to broach a new Johnsonian quest: Can the U.S. slow the hegira to the cities, haul the hamlets out of hibernation, and reverse the overwhelming demographic thrust of the century...
...County for $700 worth of gunpowder, lead, axes, kettles, pistols, swords, beer and a number of other items. As recently as 1950, Negroes constituted a scant 17% of Newark's population. With the rush to the suburbs by whites in the affluent era that followed, and the northward hegira of Negro refugees from Dixie, the black population is now estimated at 50% to 55% and even more, making Newark the only major city in the North, except for Washington, with a Negro majority...