Word: exoduses
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...mass exodus from class at 12:30 p.m., Harvard students and professors kicked off a rally, decrying the Bush administration’s attack on Iraq with speeches and live music...
...Zedong's 1949 victory cued a huge exodus to Hong Kong. Searching for work, Lily abandoned her children, telling Guilan, "Here's 50 cents. By the time you spend it I'll be back." Taking Lily's family name to throw the Communists off his trail, Charles stowed away on a boat so crowded that some people died, their corpses tossed overboard. The survivors did not find life in Hong Kong much easier. Charles recalls seeing a former Nationalist general begging door-to-door, holding a newspaper to catch donations. "He didn't even have a beggar's bowl...
...also discussed Biblical passages and church doctrines relating to abortion, including a passage in Exodus that fines men who cause miscarriages and the Gospel of Life doctrine of Pope John Paul II, which condemns abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia...
...without a firefight, a bomb attack or a snatching. Just last Tuesday, the Philippine military unleashed yet another full-scale offensive near the town of Pikit against Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) militants, resulting in the deaths of at least 160 guerrillas and eight soldiers, and prompting the exodus of some 40,000 civilians...
...thing people aren't doing is leaving. Basrans know that the army would not allow a mass exodus. And besides, where would people go? "During the war with Iran, people sent their children to the north, away from the front lines," says Abdul-Razak Mohamed, vice president of Basra University. "But now no place is safe from American bombs...