Word: hegira
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...with hundreds of incendiary plummets, consume wide wooded areas and wipe out scores of villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...
With the question muttered beneath their breaths, "When will it ever end??", movie audiences are submitting themselves to the latest the Judge Hardy ordeals, "Andy Hardy Meets a Debutante." The substance of the film is an account of the Hardy family's hegira to the big, bad city of New York with various digressions on love, glamour, and Americanism. As the Hardy series progresses, moppet Rooney seems to be developing into a menace of national proportions, and one of the cleverest actors on the screens today. His seene with Judy Garland driving through Central Park at dawn in a carriage...
Wheeling, in the days of the great hegira to the West, was considered to be the end of Eastern civilization and the jumping off place into the great Indian country. After their arduous trip over the national pike (now U. S. Route 40) the emigrant New Englanders were ready for a breathing spell and a general overhauling of supplies and equipment. Also it usually took a few days to make arrangements to be ferried over the Ohio River at this point...
...Hegira. Even if men and materials were to be had, the problem of distributing them was next to insoluble. For every road in the area was choked with refugees, not only a half million that had left Barcelona, but thousands more that the advancing Rebels swept before them. It was one of history's greatest and most tragic hegiras. From heights on the French frontier as far as eye could see a steady river of humanity slowly rolled toward the border...
...spent an interesting but uncomfortable and. at times, hair-raising three weeks in our hegira. As we crossed Siberia we began to hear more about the elusive guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train...