Word: exodusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost their land to the Israelis, last week got it back-symbolically. Reviving the ancient tradition of shemittah, or sabbatical year ("And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still"- Exodus, 23:10-11), Israeli rabbis turned over all the Jewish land to an Arab for the new Jewish year which starts Oct. 1. The land transfer has no legal standing...
...lowest on record (in the Kansas-Missouri flood, 12 inches fell in 72 hours). Overplanting of cotton, overgrazing of cattle is depleting the ground water supply. Arizona's $300 million agricultural economy is in peril from the years of dryness, and some alarmed Arizonans fear a general exodus from the state if rain doesn't come...
Most of the songs Shoshana sings are the kind that Jewish men & women have sung since the days of David and Bathsheba: prayers, laments, love songs, or songs that tell a story, such as The Magic Carpet-an account of the exodus of modern Yemenite Jews from their home on the Arabian peninsula. Few in the audience can understand the Hebrew words, but Shoshana's gestures, mobile face and throbbing voice make them exciting listening anyway...
...Exodus. In Providence, the local Bible Institute announced that its FM station, which signs off nightly with the phrase, "This is WPTL, the station that operates by the grace of God," would stop operating at the end of June...
...squabble with President A. Whitney Griswold has resulted in the exodus of six Yale political scientists to Princeton. Earlier this fall, V. O. Key, chairman of the Eli Department of Political Science, announced that he was resigning his position, effective this June, to teach here...