Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying stone. And less than two hours after that, an empty El Al Airlines Boeing 707-420, being ferried from Philadelphia by a five-man Israeli crew, skidded 200 ft. beyond the end of its 8,000-ft. runway at Kennedy and slushed to a stop hub-deep in soft sand...
...world's best-known address was not No. 10 Downing Street: it was No. 5. Only during one of its many restorations did the simple Georgian town house in London somehow double its digit. Under any number, it never seemed to foreigners to be pretentious enough for the hub of the British Empire. But most Englishmen insist that it be kept just the way it always has been...
...more important than the emotion of the isolated issue of the "freedom stay-out" is what the boycott has done to strength Boston's civil rights movement. The Hub has been slowest of the northern industrial centers to evolve a militant civil rights movement. Partly this is because the Negroes population is relatively small, partly it is because Negroes here are not quite so oppressively impoverished as in New York or Chicago. New York passed through these relatively pleasant phases of the movement which Boston is experiencing well over a year ago. The Negro civil rights leadership there...
...grew closer, President Roosevelt looked around for friendly businessmen to serve in his Administration. Forrestal was interviewed by Harry Hopkins and recruited. He was appointed to the newly created post of Under Secretary of the Navy and soon made his rather vaguely defined job a hub of the defense establishment. In 1944 Forrestal became Secretary of the Navy...
...Hub's own Patriots, who forged ahead in the Eastern Division of the American Football League by clobbering Houston Sunday, can clinch the title Saturday by beating or tying Kansas City (channel...