Word: exoduses
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Janitors at several houses and Yard dormitories reported an exodus of baggage-laden students leaving hot Cambridge in desperation. But for those who stayed behind to face the oven atmosphere, Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering, had some words of encouragement yesterday...
...Palestine's violence would be ended by such mortal arithmetic. Yesterday's hopes and anger were forgotten in today's new fears. Forgotten was the United Nations' inquiry commission. And forgotten, for the moment, were the 4,500 Jews defiantly refusing to leave their ship, Exodus, 1947, in France's sweltering Port-de-Bouc...
...British Navy was not embarrassed. Two sleek destroyers closed in on the refugee ship. The Exodus' captain, Bernard Marks of Cincinnati, refused to take aboard a landing party and headed his ship out to sea again. The refugees-half of them women & children-screamed their defiance. About the funnel they draped a banner: "England, this is your enemy...
...destroyers rammed the Exodus on both sides; boarding parties armed with truncheons, small arms and tear-gas bombs jumped aboard, rushed the bridge. The refugees fought back by throwing tins of corned beef and potatoes. By sheer weight of numbers, they pushed British sailors into cabins, down corridors, in a struggle that most of the refugees knew was hopeless...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...