Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sidewalks. Minnesota combines all the glories and weaknesses of U.S. state universities on a 966-acre main campus beside the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The campus is an architectural hodgepodge dominated by a football arena seating 65,000. Drawing heavily on the state's population hub, it has 23 parking lots for 7,000 cars. Like lunch-bound auto workers, khaki-clad boys and white-sneakered girls spew out of classrooms to the clang of bells at 20 minutes past every hour, and since 1949 the sidewalks have been widened by four feet to keep people...
Jokes & Jazz. The really cozy just-good-dancing places-like Larue's or Le Coq Rouge, where the beat once was clear, strong and pleasant-have all but disappeared. Also gone, for the most part, is the local, rooted talent. Most entertainers nowadays travel a national circuit whose hub is Las Vegas and whose periphery is TV. The jokes and the songs are the same in New York as they are in Chicago or on the Jack Paar show...
From Buffalo, the second largest city of the state and the hub of heavily industrialized Erie County, Millard Brown, chief editorial writer of the Evening News, told the CRIMSON yesterday: "There's a pretty substantial Kennedy movement here, and he's pretty popular among suburban Republicans...
...crowd enthusiasm. Yet on Thursday, September 29, a large number of the members of the Students for Nixon-Lodge found themselves squarely in the middle of certainly one of the most tumultuous, (at least, pulse- and awe inspiring) greetings ever accorded any candidate in the seemingly reserved Hub...
...hub cap (hot-rod jargon)-conceited type