Word: mecca
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Africa, Iran and Iraq. Some of these recruits to slavery are captured or kidnaped in their native villages; others are lured to Mecca on alleged pilgrimages, then sold in the slave market of the Holy City. Most have to be ferried into Arabia across the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. If the British Navy, under the proposed "piracy" clause, resumed its vigorous, pre-World War I slave patrol in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, this lucrative traffic would be severely hampered...
...over the U.S. have come to teach at the center, do research work there, attend forums and legal clinics. In its chosen fields-tax law, oil and gas law, international law, insurance law, administrative law-the center has provided a staff of experts that has made it a legal mecca not only for the Southwest and the U.S. in general, but for big slices of Latin America, the Far and Middle East and Europe. Among the center's other accomplishments...
There remains a third circle−a circle which stretches across continents and oceans and which is the domain of our brothers in faith who all, wherever under the sun they may be, turn as we do in the direction of Mecca and whose devout lips speak the same prayers...
Jawaharlal Nehru works hard at the role of bellwether. He grows furious when Western powers ("these people who try to run Asia without us") refuse to accept India's judgment as the final word on Asian problems. And under his leadership India has become a Mecca for the increasing number of Asian nations whose foreign policies rest on the twin foundations of "anticolonialism," i.e., anti-Westernism, and "nonalignment," i.e., no commitment in the worldwide struggle between Communism and freedom...
...real music lovers' mecca, the piece de resistance of the whole summer's entertainment schedule, will be the annual Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, in the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Here symphony, choral and chamber music concerts will be given for six weeks, July 4 (this Wednesday) to August 12, on what the press agent calls "the spacious pine-clad estate where a century ago Nathaniel Hawthorne was a guest and told his 'Tanglewood Tales...