Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa State Fair is a small city unto itself," says Fair Director Ken Fulk. "In fact, it's a mecca." Mecca indeed. This year the 400 acres of fairgrounds in Des Moines have attracted nearly 650,000 visitors in ten days. Farm families from Iowa towns like Burlington, Belle Plaine, Indianola and Clearfield come to show their livestock, spend a few dollars on the midway, ogle the new farm machinery and see what their neighbors' hogs look like...
...Caravelles-which will doubtless be sold to make room for two new 727s recently approved for purchase by the Jordanian Cabinet. The line's major customers are still Palestinians from round the world returning home for a visit and Moslems from Arab states and Black Africa visiting Mecca for the hajj or pilgrimage that every devout Moslem is supposed to make at least once in his life. But Alia sees the growth of "the Bible traffic" as its real future...
...that first day, I had never heard of jimmies. I was nervous to a peak, trying to play down my own feelings of pride at having arrived at the great mecca of learning, the university with the golden streets. I put my Sony clock-radio on the window sill and raised the first floor window full-height. My parents, yes, they were there, horrified, reminding me that Cambridge is full of crime. My radio would be stolen by a meandering hand at any moment. I scoffed. And then I moved the radio...
...American dream. He does more. He plunges directly into its central vein and gauges the intensity of the pulse, a manic ebb and flow of raw human yearnings for wealth. Las Vegas is the ultimate embodiment of this process, stripped of genteel pretensions, and it is toward this mecca of the Horatio Alger dream that Thompson heads. He speeds dope-crazed along the desert in a rented convertible, The Great Red Shark, accompanied by his Samoan attorney. Ostensibly he is on assignment for an East Coast sporting magazine to cover the Mint 400, a renowned motorcycle race. But the story...
Harvard hockey fans won't have to journey to the mecca of schoolboy hockey in Boston's 'combat zone' this year to watch the Crimson play Yale. Tonight's game has been moved from the scenic splendor of Boston Arena to the cozy confines of Watson Rink for an 8 p.m. face...