Word: exoduses
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...ruthless crackdown by Ya+hya's tough West Pakistani troops last March and a resulting exodus that sent nearly 10 million Bengali refugees flooding into India...
Last March, when the exodus began, thousands of Indians living in the border areas rushed forward to offer assistance. Today the torrent of men. women and children has so exacerbated tensions that armed guards have been placed at the camps, and West Bengal officials are securing relief camps with barbed-wire fencing...
...venture, a year may be too short a period to determine whether Open Admissions has been either a success or a failure. But last week, in testimony before a state legislative committee, CUNY Chancellor Robert J. Kibbee and other officials were cautiously optimistic about their experiment. There was no exodus of professors, and there is no evidence that talented students were held back. Moreover, the task of having to cope with masses of students who lacked basic high school skills forced the university to revamp and modernize its teaching methods, potentially to the benefit of all students...
...American girls are dirty, with no makeup and hair down to here, because they are doing their own thing." U.S. Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) was sounding off in Sydney, Australia-a stop on a round-the-world tour to gather material for his eighth book. "Society's chief curse," carped Uris, is the birth control pill. "Sex has become such an open commodity that it has lost a lot of the affection a man and a woman should have for each other. By the age of 24 or 25, girls have had the romance bashed out of them...
...With the exodus of drummer Mickey Hart and organist Tom Constanten, the Dead is now composed of its original five members--the five who put out the Dead's five members--the five who put out the Dead's first album. And, not surprisingly, their new album resembles their first more than any since...