Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-year Iran-Iraq war. The members of the Arab League, the declaration says, "voiced their indignation at the Iranian regime's intransigence, provocations and threats to the Arab gulf states" and "denounced the bloody, criminal acts" of the Iranians who rioted last summer in the holy city of Mecca...
...grimy Connecticut city, sometimes known as the home of Yale University, will become Mecca today and tomorrow as more than 12,500 Harvard fans converge in anticipation of The Game...
Maria, a bed-wise South Carolina belle and wife of an aging Jewish businessman who has made a fortune selling charter flights to Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...
...puzzle lovers do not have to wait for the next party before finding a mecca of games. The MIT museum is currently sponsoring an exhibit of an extravaganza of puzzles. Six rooms at the museum are devoted to puzzles; they comprise a unique genre including mathematics, painting, and sculpture, as well as some psychology...
Cambridge: rowing's Mecca. Home of the powerful Harvard and Radcliffe crews and many of the country's finest individual scullers...