Word: exodus
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...city was beginning to wear a somewhat defensive look. The Reds had plainly become alarmed over the way West Berlin is drawing thousands out of East Germany. They had reason to worry: in the last twelve months some 150,000 East Germans have fled the Soviet zone; and the exodus is beginning to hurt Communist farms and factories...
...ambling down Massachusetts Avenue worrying about how many cases you should have put into McCloskey's first question, and you get clipped in the ear with a hickory stick and spiked in the ribs by an aluminum rod-then you know that exams are over and the big exodus has begun. They're all off to the slopes...
...Mass exodus from tavern...
Troop meetings were only the beginning. There was also hiking, and "the man in charge of a group of boy hikers has somewhat the same problems that faced Moses in managing the Exodus . . . There is a similar effort involved in keeping up morale and discipline. There is the same need to dispel almost universal fear of death from thirst or privation. There are those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp, 'Go on without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties...
...Office lists but a handful of weekend tourist homes, most of which fill up weeks in advance. Bound by the fire laws, Radcliffe dormitories can only assign guests the beds of girls who have left for the weekend--and big social weekends are hardly the time for a mass exodus from Radcliffe. If they wish to avoid the trials of Pumley, students must try the outlying suburbs or high priced hotels...