Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev ready to acknowledge? He has often asserted that the very presence in Berlin of U.S., British and French troops is illegal; East Germany's Red Puppet Walter Ulbricht, who would get control of Berlin's access routes after any peace treaty, has vowed to stop the exodus of refugees running out to West Germany and clamp down on the city's economy...
...always full, but no one ever reads it." Out in the potato country, Central Committee Functionary Bruno Wagner was told flatly by a farmer: "One ought to listen more to the West." Refugees arriving in West Berlin said that lesser party hacks were unwittingly contributing to the exodus by boasting ominously that all exit routes to the West would soon be sealed off. Among the 150,000 refugees so far this year were over 500 doctors, whom East Germany can hardly afford to lose, more than 1,000 teachers, and last, week an East German supreme court judge...
...Kong: the widening river of desperate refugees fleeing to freer lands. Middle-class Cubans still come out aboard the twice-daily Pan Am flights to Miami. But now the humildes, the humble ones, la-'borers, rural peasants, fishermen, the very people Castro pretends to champion, have joined the exodus. They flee however they...
...drastic new efforts to curb the refugee exodus from Dresden, the authorities have set up "block commandos," made up of civilian party members, who make nightly neighborhood checks, knocking on every door. When nobody answers, they alert the railroad police to watch for the resident. Banks are now required to report the name of anyone who draws a suspiciously large amount of cash from his account. As a result, would-be refugees now leave on weekends to thwart the commandos (since many Dresdeners take vacation weekends in the summer anyway), never draw more than $50 in cash to take with...
...religion forbids portraying human images in religious art. But Chagall has populated his Bible land with swirling stars, delicate flowers and prancing animals ever since he was a boy singing in the synagogue of Vitebsk. To these personal images, Chagall added clues he found in Moses' instructions in Exodus that a dozen precious gems be engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. Chagall suffused each window with a single brilliant color on which he painted Joseph's description of the tribes of Israel found in Genesis and Deuteronomy, i.e., Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose...