Word: exoduses
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...Waters of Sugar Creek. Among the book's most successful sections are those in which Utah-born Bernard DeVoto describes the exodus of the Mormons from the time they were driven from Illinois. The flight from Nauvoo ("The city of the Lord God Jehovah King of Kings. ... In February, 1846, it was fallen-that great city") is memorable. "Acres of ice" floated in the Mississippi. "The ferries were jammed with men, women, children, horses, oxen, cows, swine, chickens, feather beds, Boston rockers, a miscellany of families and goods hastily brought together in the fear of death. The boats dumped...
...Suffering. Blinding clouds of yellow dust off the deserts swirled into India. Pukka memsahibs began their annual trek to the cool mountains. Trains were jammed with passengers, parrots, dogs. In New Delhi the exodus threatened American officers with a shortage of women companions. Flowers wilted. Vultures lazed. Kites dived down and stole cakes from terrace tea tables...
Enrollment in the College has dropped to 2150 from 3400 undergraduates in September, Reginald H. Phelps, Assistant Dean of the College, announced yesterday. This is a loss of 350 students since the beginning of the term at which time University Hall predicted an exodus of 500 by March...
With a bow to the book of Exodus,* the British Colonial Office said: "While the attention of the whole world has been focused on the alliance of all free peoples for the elimination of the pests of Naziism ... an alliance has been formed for a world war against a pest which in Biblical times paralyzed ancient Egypt...
...whole earth so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees . . . and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.-Exodus...