Word: exoduses
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From that point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...
Recalling that Harvard is not a co-educational institution, the House Masters recently turned down a Student Council request to have the time of House exodus for women extended by an hour. Neither the masters nor the Council members are dealing with realities: the Masters because they consider official recognition of student social life a heinous step toward co-education, and the Council members because their proposal was hardly an attempt to alleviate the social difficulties caused by the lack of, and the failure to use, University facilities...
...Cagliari. Umberto won handily. He watched as locust-fighters deployed their last weapon: 62 drums of gammexane, a sort of new DDT, flown in from England for its first big-scale test. If this failed, nothing would stop the scourge save a miracle such as that related in Exodus 10:19: "And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into...
...many Jews were moving out of their modern bondage toward the ancient promised Land. By thousands they fled from eastern Europe, where three-fourths of the Continent's 1,300,000 surviving Jews (not including those of Russia) have found no victory in Hitler's defeat.* Their exodus was illegal, clandestine, and humanitarian. A Polish Jewess explained why: "You know what Europe is to me? It's a cemetery. When I walk into a store and see soap on sale, I remember that this may be the body of my sister...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...