Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once the hub-bub was quieted a local official introduced Kennedy, shyly, as though the very act of introduction was a mark of disrespect. The senator walked forward. A less literal age would have declared that the women, youngest to oldest, swooned when he appeared. Perhaps they did not swoon, but they did lean forward, and clap and some just laughed...
...very fact that the Kremlin holds up the goal as an ideal is a remarkable turnabout in Communist ideology. So, too, is the newly christened town of Togliatti, the Russian Detroit on the Volga, where a huge Fiat automobile plant is being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain crop will do is give many Russian farmers extra rubles...
...Louvre, and workmen and architects were always improving and fixing things up there, or at Chambord, or wherever he moved. "Nobody," writes the author, "ever knew when this secret man first conceived the design by which his father's little hunting lodge was to become the hub of the universe." Mitford's tentative guess is the simple explanation that Louis liked the country; he lived on horseback and was a great shot. The hindsight of history alleges that he was afraid of the Parisians, but this was not quite so ("Fear was left out of his nature...
...cities (after New York and Chicago), Greater Los Angeles is already the second-most-populous metropolis in the U.S., is almost sure to surpass New York by 1975. Last week alone, some 5,000 people moved into the area. By 1990, such growth will make the city the hub of an uninterrupted urbanized stretch of almost 19 million inhabitants occupying the 175-mile-long, coastal area that runs from Santa Barbara in the north to San Diego in the south. Already sociologists are calling this Southern California megalopolis the prototype of the city of the future...
...West. Once overly dependent on the movie industry, it is now the hub of a huge industrial complex of top firms in aircraft, electronics and research, all attracted by the year-round sunshine. Long considered a sort of cultural desert, the city now boasts some of the nation's top universities, a huge number of intellectual enterprises, and a music center and museum that rival any in the U.S. Of course, it also has its seamy side and the problems that come with growth-and one of the difficulties of solving them is that the average Angeleno seems...