Word: hub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hub of the street's activity is the Diamond Dealers Club, which is on the ninth floor of one of the street's newer buildings. The club has 1,750 members, who are among the most respected and established dealers on the street. Election to the club is restricted, coming only after a person has secured a reputation and been fully scrutinized by club members...
...Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor to sit in city hall." From darkest Chicago, far from the hub of the solar system, former Harvard Running Back Edward Cronin chimed in, "I proudly wish to add my name to the growing rolls...
...hub of the complex is the sales office and call board, department store, barbershop, lounge and restaurant. The food is steam-table cuisine, but it is cheap and plentiful. A hungry man can heap his tray with chicken-fried steak, creamed potatoes, green beans, corn bread, salad and homemade pie for less than $4.50. One trucker is celebrated for ordering seven scoops of mashed potatoes at 350 a scoop...
Laredo is the hub of the trade. Poor Mexicans make many small purchases, but large amounts of goods are bought by the rich, a number of whom buzz into town in their Lear jets from as far away as Mexico City. Sometimes they are met at the airport by a 1939 Rolls-Royce belonging to Joe Brand, who owns three Laredo clothing stores. Other wealthy Mexicans fill empty suitcases with $195 suede handbags or $105 men's loafers from the Gucci boutique in the Frost Bros. department store. Says Gary Payne, general manager of the Laredo Chamber of Commerce...
...hottest topic at parties? After the Red Sox and Doonesbury of course, it's that gossip column Ear from the Washington Post that the Hub gets in the Herald American...