Word: hub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston is impressed with its culture, and you'd best be considerate of this fact. Symphony Hall is the hub of this culture, but there is only one difficulty. The street car that takes you to Symphony Hall stops first at the Statler and then at the Copley Plaza. If you are strong-willed enough to cling to your finer intentions, you will perhaps be on the way toward absorbing some of this culture of which Bostonians are so proud...
...city of contrasts. In the very same week that a new novel is banned and thirteen men are arrested for "gaming on the Lord's day," you will find Errol Flynn's successor getting a big play in the newspapers and the Tassel Queen still reigning supreme in the Hub...
...vast numbers of guns could be used -if cannon could be placed hub to hub -what power could break through? And if the cannon, besides spreading their fire over an area, could hit small, individual targets one after another, what system of defenses could survive? Thus, out of the body of Russian tradition, out of the mass of ideas, doubts and speculations, emerged Voronov's tactic of Massed Fire & Individual Targets...
Last week Joseph Stalin confirmed what Berlin had unhappily admitted two days earlier: the fall of Równe (Rovno) and Luck (Lutsk), an 85-mile thrust into old Poland. Vatutin had bypassed the German-held roads, sent his men into the hub-deep mud of swamps and forests. Outflanked, the Germans retreated...
...mountains was aimed at railroad lines. These attacks were evidently keyed in with air raids by Allied Mitchell bombers from Italy. The U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, newly based in Italy, struck heavy blows at Pola, big supply center for Nazi forces in Yugoslavia (and at Sofia, Balkan communications hub.) Tito and Allied commanders were in communication; it was no longer a secret that some supply vessels and many liaison parties shuttled between Italy and Partisan-held points on the coast...