Word: exoduses
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...several of my colleagues have asked me why I picked 80 percent as the music picture for the exodus from New England rather than 70 or 90 percent. The fact is I made no forecast concerning an exodus. I quoted a lady's view that she did not care if there were a large exodus. She said England would be as well off it her population had not grown since the days of Elizabeth. At that point, I suggested it the attitude is that it makes no difference whether the population is 12 of 3 million, then we need...
...scene seemed symbolic of Western man's hasty and confused exodus from China. But not all Westerners left. Many decided to stick it out with their Chinese friends. Said the wife of a U.S. businessman who stayed: "I feel like a cross between Florence Nightingale and a damn fool, but I'm staying...
...civilization; it was 173 years ago that the British were forced to evacuate their entrenchments behind what is now known as Scollay Square. Which explains the colorful parades that will appear tonight on that historic spot, and the evacuation of the taverns at midnight that will recall the great exodus of 1776. Thus do true Bostonians demonstrate their deep seated sense of traditional rites and solemn observances...
...Israel agreed to a semi-demilitarization (only small defensive forces, no airplanes) of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Egypt was allowed to withdraw from the famed Fa-luja pocket, and last week her half-starved troops, who had been marooned in the pocket for 20 weeks, began a joyful exodus, heads held high...
...November 1917, with the U.S. at war, Storyville and jazz were handed a stunning jolt. At the Navy's request, New Orleans clamped down on the disease-ridden "District," put it permanently out of business. New Orleans witnessed an exodus unique in U.S. history. Hundreds of prostitutes streamed from their cribs carrying their belongings. Establishments like Lulu White's renowned Mahogany Hall (one of Louis' most prized recordings is Mahogany Hall Stomp) closed for good, and so did scores of "in mills and honky-tonks that had prepared a home for jazz music and jobs...