Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Festivities had been in full swing for three days prior to The Game and by the time I arrived to board the bus to Mecca (Schaefer Stadium) I felt a little like a fish out of water. I, unlike the 60,000 other pilgrims, was sober...
...addition to these official facilities, there are other less formal places to pursue one's athletic interests. Harvard Yard and the Charles River banks are fine for frisbee, touch football, and suntanning. The Freshman Union is the mecca for pingpong, pool, and that most addictive and time wasting of all endeavors, pinball...
...Francisco may still be a mecca for sophisticated singles, but anyone with children has lately found the city by the bay to be as chilly as a fog rolling in through the Golden Gate. A recent survey by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission revealed that 69% of landlords in the Marina, 60% in the Sunset and 50% in the Richmond neighborhoods refuse to rent to applicants with children. With a vacancy rate of only 2% in the city, this left little room for anyone with youngsters...
...exile. The remaining dissenters are depressed. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the hero of those who cherish civil rights, insists that there have been no reforms since Khrushchev's modest relaxations more than 15 years ago. Sakharov patiently conducts his lost cause from a bleak Moscow apartment that is a mecca for Soviets in trouble with the KGB-and for Westerners whose respectful visits help the scientist stay out of jail. No students, not even a one-man demonstration, speak up for Solzhenitsyn or Sakharov, or even against pollution...
...notoriously prison-like mortgages and other traps of these mobile home oases allow it); they take nourishment at roadside snack bars; they recreate at rest stops, zonk in at the drive-in. Route 9 is smaller time--it carves through heavy suburbs, and at the Village Green Miniature Golf mecca "the 19th hole," a wired blare-music pinball palace, the lights are blazing and it seems like the kids are worshipping all night. The other 18 holes are flawless carpets. No off-balance tilts here--your ball goes where it is intended to. Furthermore, the mini-civilization which this...