Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiroshima and its fellow bomb victim, Nagasaki, are the most pro-U.S. cities in Japan. American visitors are bombarded with questions as to how Hiroshima can be made a Mecca for peace-loving pilgrims. Hiroshimans feel that The Bomb purged them of all war guilt; perhaps that is why Hiroshima is free of the paralysis that palsies most of the rest of the world...
...that when Bayside (and Mecca, too) are dust, that will be the thing Arabian shepherds will remember as they watch their lean flocks; it is the word a prince brought back from a teacher beyond...
...announcer) calling to prayers just before sunrise: 'La ilaha, ilia Allah, Mohamed rasul Allah!' (There is but one God, and Mohamed is his prophet!). The Moslem washes himself-his whole body 'if he has been with his wife'-stands barefoot on a carpet and, facing Mecca, begins to pray in the manner of a man doing mild setting-up exercises. First he stands at attention and says: 'I am beginning to pray.' Then, putting his hands to his ears, he says: 'Allah is almighty, exalted be Allah.' Standing at attention again...
Milwaukee, ancient home of German-American brewers, will be the mecca for thousands of Harvard men this week as the Associate Harvard Clubs open their 50th anniversary meeting tomorrow in the midwestern malt center. At the conclave, which will last for three days, countless University officials, including President Conant and alumni notables are scheduled to report on the state of the Harvard community...
...appreciation for a seat in the bleachers, or an esoteric discussion on the relative merits of Honus Wagner and Marty Marion. He had passed the stage of collecting picture cards and autographed baseballs, when his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium had assumed the proportions of a pilgrimage to Mecca, but increased sophistication and the price of a grandstand seat had served only to pitch his interest on a slightly more detached plane...