Word: exodusing
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...Khrushchev ready to acknowledge? He has often asserted that the very presence in Berlin of U.S., British and French troops is illegal; East Germany's Red Puppet Walter Ulbricht, who would get control of Berlin's access routes after any peace treaty, has vowed to stop the exodus of refugees running out to West Germany and clamp down on the city's economy...
...quite right about a "steady exodus of young people." It is not only in East Germany that people vote with their feet. Of the ten young men who grew up in my neighborhood near the University Agricultural Campus in Lincoln, all have completed university training and have entered some professional field. Only one of these young men who finished university around 1950 is still in Nebraska. As a teacher, it is certain that I will not even consider Nebraska as a place to return to for continuing my work...
...drastic new efforts to curb the refugee exodus from Dresden, the authorities have set up "block commandos," made up of civilian party members, who make nightly neighborhood checks, knocking on every door. When nobody answers, they alert the railroad police to watch for the resident. Banks are now required to report the name of anyone who draws a suspiciously large amount of cash from his account. As a result, would-be refugees now leave on weekends to thwart the commandos (since many Dresdeners take vacation weekends in the summer anyway), never draw more than $50 in cash to take with...
...religion forbids portraying human images in religious art. But Chagall has populated his Bible land with swirling stars, delicate flowers and prancing animals ever since he was a boy singing in the synagogue of Vitebsk. To these personal images, Chagall added clues he found in Moses' instructions in Exodus that a dozen precious gems be engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. Chagall suffused each window with a single brilliant color on which he painted Joseph's description of the tribes of Israel found in Genesis and Deuteronomy, i.e., Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose...
...common school, where the proportion of high school graduates has long ranked high and illiteracy low among all the states of the Union-education is no longer a prime concern. Budgets are cut. Federal aid is opposed. Teachers and faculties are harassed and underpaid." The result is "a steady exodus of young people." Nebraska is "old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place...