Word: home-bound
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...appear as, 'No way of escape!' or 'Buffalo!' or 'I am beaten,' until at last they cannot write a word. And, twittering all over, old before their time, with eyes like rissoles in the sand, they are helped up the gangway of the home-bound liner by kind bosom friends (of all kinds and bosoms) who bolster them on the back, pick them up again, thrust bottles, sonnets, cigars, addresses, into their pockets, have a farewell party in their cabin, pick them up again, and, snickering and yelping, are gone: to wait...
...morning last week, on the home-bound Presidential Special, tired, baggy-eyed Charlie Ross, press secretary to Harry Truman, ambled into the reporters' work car. Said Ross: "Good speech coming up at Clarksburg; it'll make a good story." Then he put down a sheaf of papers and said casually that here was a White House statement...
...late last night, and the home-bound student felt no kindness towards the Counecticut trooper who had so discourteously whistled him down for doing 85 on the monotonous marches of the Merritt Parkway...
...they definitely did not want to do their catching up in the classroom: the Army's Division of Information and Education soon found that out. The Army's first halting attempts to lecture the home-bound G.I.s on the back news, while they waited for ships to take them to the U.S., were met by razzberry-flavored questions: "What are we doing here? Why aren't we on our way home?" Last week the Army tried a new way-elaborately casual teaching...
Gedye was back again after five years. In 1940, home-bound from Moscow, where he had been New York Times correspondent (he is so no longer), Gedye stopped off in Istanbul-and promptly vanished from newsprint. The spotlight touched him briefly in 1942 when Turkish police arrested him, and the German press howled that he had been plotting the assassination of Franz von Papen. What he calls "confidential" methods got him out of jail; he fled to Jerusalem, and there shouted a terse "nonsense" at the charges. Then the spotlight flickered...