Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ankara airport landed a Russian transport plane, ostensibly out of fuel. Out popped 21 gaily clad Mecca-bound pilgrims, Communists all, yet Moslems to a man. Two of them, their passports showed, were Red army officers. While the prospective hadjis were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived. Their eagerness was understandable : Russia is trying hard to woo not only its own Moslem population of about 30 million (which has often been rebellious and subject to purges) but the 310 million Moslems whose lands stretch in a strategic arc from Casablanca to the Sulu...
...Senator Moody), reckoned one of the U.S.'s ten richest men (estimated total assets: $400 million) of pneumonia; in Galveston, Texas. Gracious, publicity-shy Financier Moody controlled vast tracts of Texas land (including Galveston Island, which flourished for years as the gambling mecca of the Southwest) and such miscellaneous enterprises as the $364 million American National Insurance Co.,33 hotels and tourist courts, two banks, both Galveston newspapers, eleven ranches...
...found to be inadequate, so George Weller agreed to write a new book. The theatrical group, however, was already beginning to be plagued with union expenses. The Pudding was charged $110 after privately transporting its scenery to New York. Union labor halted the Pudding truck outside its destination, the Mecca Temple, and presented the bill for carrying the sets inside, a distance of four feet...
...academic chairs in the U.S., probably none is more of a hot-seat than the presidency of Teachers College, Columbia University. The mecca of U.S. public schoolmen, T.C. has turned out a fourth of the nation's big-city (over 50,000 population) school superintendents. It lists among its alumni nearly a third of all U.S. deans of education and presidents of teacher-training institutions. As such, it has been more than any other campus the creator of the modern public school...
...member of the audience called Chávez' institute "the heart capital of the world." Baltimore's famed Pediatrician Helen Taussig, whose researches made possible the "blue baby" operation, said: "It is [Chávez] who made this a great institute ... a Mecca for all young people who want to study the heart. We can rejoice when we have the opportunity to come here ourselves...