Word: exoduses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Through the misty dawn, they could see the land they had fled in horror-Germany. Two months ago, they had left the Continent aboard a leaky old tub called Exodus '47, bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...
...miles on either side of the border, as farmers ran away or hid. In Lahore only one or two banks stayed open because the clerks had gone back to Madras. Throughout Pakistan there was little commercial activity. Hindu and Sikh merchants, engineers and mechanics had joined in the general exodus...
...Exodus from Plenty. The exodus did not mean that the field was running dry -far from it. West Edmond has yielded only some 60,000,000 of its estimated 600,000,000 barrels of oil. But at a time when the nation is fast using up its known oil reserves, West Edmond is flagrantly wasting its supply. To save the greatest possible amount of what remains, Oklahoma's oil-regulating Corporation Commission ordered "unitization" of the field, i.e., operating it as if it were a single lease. This was the most drastic step yet taken by any state...
...Jews, it was a continuation of the Exodus 1947 saga. All of them had been aboard this ship when it had been rammed, attacked and captured by the British (TIME, July 28) off the Palestine coast. Since then they had lived in the ships' holds, ignoring British orders to leave and French offers of hospitality. The leaders of the refugees declared doggedly: "We wish to go to Palestine. We shall not land in Europe as long as we are alive...
...Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...