Word: hub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the symbol of U.S. air power in France sits hub-deep in the mud, while the sheep baa contentedly along the runways of Merignac field...
W7est Berlin, an island of freedom in Soviet East Germany, lost a little of its opportunity to strike back if another Berlin airlift is ever necessary. Because nearly all of Germany's trunk railroads converge like spokes into the hub of Berlin, the Allies have always wielded a sort of railroad veto over Red Germany. Last week the Russians canceled out the veto by completing the last link of a 100-mile bypass railroad circling Berlin, all in Soviet territory. Their 15-mile link to a long-planned loop took nearly a year, required 5,000 laborers...
Father Feeney heads the St. Benedict's Center on Arrow Street, across the way from the old part of Adams House. The Center used to be a Catholic Club of Harvard and Radcliffe students. Since the spring of 1949, it has become the hub of a nation-wide group of self-termed "militant Catholics" who defy the higher Catholic authorities and adopt a line that has been commended by the American Fascist Union...
Some 2,000 Princetonians will be in the big town, ising for kicks before they head south to the New Jersey ins again. Boston is not New York, but the Hub offers luxe entertainment from stripping to serenading...
...Hub of the Wheel. British troops in Egypt are the key to British power in the Middle East. The Suez Canal zone which they protect is still the lifeline of an empire and one of the Western world's prime strategic links with Asia. On it ultimately depends the defense of Greece, Turkey...