Word: exodusing
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...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...
...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...
...Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! the sectarianism at Harvard may be less crude than at the Rhode Island college, but sectarianism is basically...
Many cities of the North are now faced with a vast increase in their Negro populations, caused by the mass in-migration of Southern Negroes and the exodus of the middle classes to suburban areas, Wilkins said. "After mistreating Negroes for decades," he explained, "Southerners are now shipping them north and saying 'you take care of them...