Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sikorsky was just 19 when he set out, in 1909, on a pilgrimage from Kiev to Paris, then the mecca of aviation. The early aeronauts who had hived there were mostly grease-stained motorcycle or automobile racers who flew?or tried to fly?out of the sheer love of risking their necks in public. Sikorsky was a young gentleman and an embryo intellectual; his father, a physician, was famed in Russia as a psychologist, and Igor had put in three years at the Imperial Naval College in St. Petersburg, and two more at the Institute of Technology at Kiev...
...slashing night ride, he and a handful of followers recaptured the ancestral capital and palace of Riyadh. Soon after World War I, he had united all the tribes of the Nejd under his rule; next, he overthrew the Saud enemy, Sherif Hussein of Mecca, and blended the Hejaz into his domain...
Late in August three Americans trespassed in the holy city of Mecca, forbidden to infidels. The Americans-Walter Coughlan, Antone Silva and Clyde Jackson-were employees of International Bechtel, a U.S. firm doing construction work in Saudi Arabia. Since they were not newcomers in the country, it seemed clear that they had foolishly driven their car to Mecca out of a sense of adventure, not because they had lost their way or were ignorant of a centuries-old taboo...
...they got past a guarded barrier ten miles out of Mecca, no one knew, but once inside the holy city, they escaped detection for a while in the dense throngs of pilgrims. When they tried to find their way out to Jidda, they were overheard speaking English, and Saudi soldiers pounced. The trespassers were taken to Jidda and thrown into a fly-infested jail. There they still languished last week. They had been fined about $1,200 each and sentenced to six months...
...Center was founded in 1941 by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mead. Containing both Harvard and M.I.T., Cambridge was then becoming the Mecca of American education, and the new importance of America in world affairs brought foreign students here by the thousands. The Meads recognized the need to provide foreign students with helpful information about America and her customs, but they wanted the Center they established to retain the friendly family tone it had before it moved out of their living room. And though the Center maintains listings of rooms and odd jobs, the Swiss hospitality of present directors Hans...