Word: hub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vague: check out a mansion 20 miles outside Medellin, the hub of the country's cocaine industry. At daybreak a 20-man elite police unit moved in. When the gunfight ended almost half an hour later, all 15 people inside the house were under arrest. But it was only when police demanded the papers of the captives that they realized they had cornered one of Colombia's most powerful and dangerous cocaine drug lords. Exclaimed Police Major William Lesmes: "We've caught him! This is Carlos Lehder Rivas." Dressed in a T shirt and blue jeans, Lehder muttered, "This...
...distance to the White House from the Hub was even greater. Biographer Goodwin navigates it swiftly. Like other historians, she finds the elder Kennedy's fingerprints all over the political controls. "It was like being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...
...centers of varsity iron-pumping by no means dominate the Harvard 'health club' scene. House gyms and graduate school rooms, including a small free-weight center for Law School students, reduce the strain on the jewels of Harvard's weight-room circuit, the varsity-oriented ITT and the social hub...
First, you have to get the Crimson to talk about the Hub hockey extravaganza; in the last several years, that's no easy trick. Start to mention the Beanpot and you'll catch an earful of ECAC standings, national rankings and two NCAA final appearances in five years...
...NCAA tournament four of the last five years, Harvard has had desperate trouble right here in its own backyard, at the Beanpot. For the uninitiated, the Beanpot is--and has been for the past 35 years--the annual social event-hockey tournament which determines the unofficial champion of Hub college hockey. Every February, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston College and Boston University meet on consecutive Mondays and have a not-so-friendly get together...