Word: mecca
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...where were these critics when hundreds of armed religious fanatics walked into the Grand Mosque of Mecca and occupied it for two weeks of bloody fighting back...
...star-struck high schoolers, a whole generation of writers fell for Stalin's brand of communism. If anything, this affliction recalls the admiration for Hanoi many anti-Vietnam war activists expressed during the 1960's. Like so many Susan Sontags, the Left Bankers would make a pilgrimage to their Mecca--and return full of hope that France too would find...
...Blue Jays simply overwhelmed the Harvard men's lacrosse team, 19-2. Saturday afternoon at Homewood Stadium, the Mecca of the lacrosse world. And in the wake of the destruction, it's even difficult to isolate the single weapon Hopkins uses to crush its opposition...
Although this was the largest high-technology theft in the so-called Silicon Valley, the mecca of prosperous, advanced companies located just south of San Francisco, it was only the latest incident. An estimated $20 million worth of computers and integrated circuits is now being stolen annually in the region...
...religious sort of person, you just associate it with the religious feeling you're used to having. It's not that everyone gets down on their knees or anything, or bows to Mecca...