Word: exoduses
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...changeover began with rumors that there would be riots, drastic restrictions and Red reprisals. But when the moment came, Hanoi, the city where the war began nearly eight years before, met it with Oriental reserve. Those who could had already fled, in a melancholy, six-weeks-long exodus which drained off some 40,000, a tenth of Hanoi's population, to havens to the south. When the first of the Viet Minh headed into the city, street crowds uttered only occasional, hesitant cheers. As the trickle grew into a rumbling stream of troops, the Vietnamese poured out from boarded...
Mountain Day was first started at Smith College to give the young ladies an outing in the beautiful New England autumn to frollo in the mountains and country-side. Now, with mass transportation, it has become an annual exodus to the men's colleges in the tri-state area...
...English grammar and word usage, carefully recommended good books, had a steady circulation of 80,000. When it rejected a manuscript, it offered a detailed criticism. Among its regular contributors: Winston Churchill, Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett, Max Beerbohm, W. Somerset Maugham. During World War II, newsprint restrictions and the exodus to the services cut John O'London's circulation to 50,000, and it never recovered. Last week its publishers sadly announced the last issue; high costs and changing tastes had forced the magazine out of business. Lamented John O'London's Editor Webster Evans: "People...
...school. Refugees from the East have added to the problem, and the output from West German schools is still high because the admission requirements are still low. Desperate for employment, about 20,000 West German doctors have emigrated to Africa and the Near East since 1945. Compared to this exodus, the transfers to East Germany represent only a trickle. But unless the surplus is reduced, the trickle is likely to grow...
...refugees who poured in around them. About 20,000 Vietnamese have already left for Saigon, and 120 fly out every day (Air Viet Nam space is filled up for all July). Refugees from fallen Namdinh crowded aboard buses for Haiphong in the second phase of their exodus...