Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Katherine's flight to Euclid Street was part of a larger exodus of both people and businesses as a cloud of almost palpable gloom settled over the city. Katherine was one of those suffering from the psychological aftershock. Walking past the eerie hulks of burnt-out buildings to get to her job made her nervous. Even worse, she had come to fear the drug addicts and petty criminals who frequented the restaurant; many of them had taken part in the destruction and seemed to have become less law-abiding as a result. One night, after a customer was shot...
...Such an exodus could cause problems for house masters trying to find single rooms for an unbalanced proportion of seniors, she said...
Phoebe Bruck said their leaving the group was not part of an organized exodus from the CCA to the Cambridge Alliance. "This was not an organized move but something that had been building up for years," Phoebe Bruck said...
Despite winning the Ivy title in 1992 behind the powerful play of Erika deLone '95, the exodus of players started in earnest that spring...
...exodus is likely to grow," he said of the FAS appointments. "The first wave is gone, but there's a second, bigger wave, and there will be a third wave at the end of the year and a fourth wave next year...