Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible reason: those who applied for release under the Gideon ruling ranked surprisingly higher in mental and physical health than the rest of Florida's prison population. As an ironic result, Gideon's adverse effect has been not on society but on the prison system itself. The exodus has created a shortage of inmates at Florida's 36 road-gang camps, forcing officials to man the camps with unreliable prisoners who had previously been confined in regular cells. As a result, the post-Gideon escape rate per 1,000 prisoners has jumped in Florida's road...
Battle Fatigue. The old squad's exodus stems neither from policy differences within the Administration nor from any personality conflict with an always demanding, often difficult President. Most of the men who came in with the New Frontier are victims of battle fatigue after five long years of physical exhaustion and intellectual enervation. "After you've butted your head against the same old problems for a while," rues one oldtimer, "you just don't charge as hard any more...
Drowned Egyptians. Thera's eruption may have had even more far-reaching effects. It is thought by some to have affected the Exodus and caused the ten plagues of Egypt 450 miles to the southeast. Professor Anghelos Galanopoulos, head of the Athens observatory's seismological institute, believes that the three days of darkness that oppressed Biblical Egypt may well have been caused by volcanic ash. The fallout of ash was probably heavy enough to ruin crops and cause famine by making the land uncultivatable...
...portions of Thera collapsed and sank, Galanopoulos suggests, the sea rushed in to fill the void, lowering the water on all eastern Mediterranean shores. As a result, a narrow bridge of land separating the Sea of Reeds from the Mediterranean temporarily widened -just as the Jews making the Exodus were about to flee across it. Shortly afterward, the waters that had surged toward Thera raced back in a huge wave that caught the pursuing Egyptian troops on the land bridge and swept them to their deaths...
Twelve members of the English Department will be absent for all or part of next year. The loss to the Department appears temporary since nine of these men will be coming back, but the mass exodus has more permanent effects for English majors who will be Seniors next year...