Word: exodusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, dismayed by this mass exodus, East Germany's Red masters were in full retreat. On second thought, the East German Politburo decided that "the practice of the medical and teaching professions does not require an outlook based on dialectical materialism. Doctors and other intellectuals who have other beliefs can continue their work unhindered." Ulbricht himself, all but begging the intellectuals to stop running away, solemnly promised that henceforth doctors' and scientists' children would be admitted to high schools "even if they have worse school records than children from the working classes...
...defection dealt a blow to East Germany's intellectual pretensions, but it was not unique. He was but one of 5,000 refugees who crossed into West Berlin last week, in a steady flow that has ceased to be news. The special character of the current exodus is the large number of intellectuals. Among them, in the first six months of 1958: 124 university professors and lecturers, 83 chemists, 483 physicians, 1,385 schoolteachers...
...Where is the eternal nature of God's reign first expressed? Answer: Exodus 15: 18-"The Lord shall reign for ever and ever...
...Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent. We who in turn follow him are thankful that like his miraculous namesake in Exodus, though this Bush has long burned with the fiery ardor of true scholarship, yet has he not been consumed...
...Russian-speaking wanderers who call themselves "Old Believers," the men in flowing beards and the women in bright peasant dresses, were sailing last week on the latest leg of a religious odyssey that has taken them halfway round the world. Behind them lay 300 years of persecution, an exodus from Russia across Asia, a bitter exile in Communist China. Ahead was a free, pioneering life in the forests of Brazil...