Dulles

D.C. area hub

Dulles refers to either of two influential American brothers: John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under Eisenhower, or Allen Dulles, CIA director during the same era.

The name appears most often in Washington Dulles International Airport, the major airport serving the Washington, D.C. area: My flight lands at Dulles at six.

person

Allen

L-shaped hex wrench

brothersMale children of same parents
secretaryAdministrative office aide
diplomatOfficial foreign representative

CIA · Cold War · Eisenhower · statesman · foreign policy · anticommunist · director · intelligence · State Department · treaty

airport

terminal

At the endpoint

internationalConcerning relations among countries
WashingtonU.S. seat of government
ReaganAmerican presidential surname

arrivals · departures · TSA · concourse · layover · customs · baggage · runway · flight · gate

eponym

named

Given an identifying label

memorialThing preserving remembrance
legacyWhat's passed down
tributeOffering of respect

dedication · honor · commemorative · namesake · renaming · christened · designation · recognition · landmark

Categories

U.S. AirportsJFK, LAX, O'Hare, Logan, Midway
VirginiaJamestown, Monticello, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Colonial Williamsburg
Eisenhower EraDwight Eisenhower, Ike, Richard Nixon, Nixon, farewell address
Virginia PlacesRichmond, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Arlington, Alexandria
DC MetroGreen Line, Metro, Bethesda, Chinatown, Clarendon
Loudoun CountyLeesburg, Sterling, Middleburg, Hamilton, Hillsboro

Opposites

DC-area airport identity

DullesReagan National

Arlington commercial airfield

Cold War diplomatic stance (John Foster Dulles)

DullesNikita Khrushchev

Zhou Enlai · Jawaharlal Nehru · Dag Hammarskjöld

Cold War foreign policy approach

Easing of strained relations

containment · appeasement

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G