Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went home to Florence, Ala., a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There she found a generation that had grown up learning to quilt...
...bother looking it up; it only exists, according to the film, in the version of the Bible found in Hell.) Such unabashedly bogus uses of Christian jargon pepper the movie: the gift of prophecy becomes the hottest new tool in forensics and criminology; while the plague imagery from Exodus becomes not a warning to repent, but simply a gross way for winged demonic beings to kill meddling humans...
...a.m.Corker slouches on a bench, his beanie over his forehead, quiet. The last band’s tired tunes spark an exodus, and a lone freshman, clutching a bottle, gyrates with the lead singer. Tables soaked in beer await Corker’s scrubbing, but—a few Scorpion Bowls later (it was a good idea!)—FM’s night is done...
...they were denied entrance, two male HLS students called HUPD and the Cambridge police, alleging gender discrimination. Cambridge police responded to the ruckus in full force, dispatching two patrol cars and a paddy wagon in addition to a faithful HUPD vehicle. Upon the officers’ arrival, a mass exodus of the bar ensued. “I thought it was an ID raid. We bailed,” said a leggy sophomore blonde. “I don’t know anything about Michigan, and do I look like a Gretchen...
...University announced yesterday the formation of a committee which would begin searching immediately for Meyer’s replacement, but the management company appeared unlikely to maintain its current form after the exodus at the top of its ranks...