Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army & Navy posts for the sole purpose of playing a few sets of tennis with homesick soldiers and sailors...
...Homesick, Eh? The Army's new women's auxiliary set an unmilitary precedent last week. It accepted the resignations of some of its enlisted WAACs (number not specified) who had signed up for the duration. Reason for resignation: the WAACs did not like barracks life or separation from husbands...
Taking another nosedive in its rags-to-riches season, the Crimson basketball team, which gets very homesick away from the Indoor Athletic Building, dropped a 57 to 56 overtime decision to Tufts at Medford Saturday night...
...were wagging behind the drying clothes in interminable conversation. Even for a Frenchman the argot is difficult, if not impossible, to understand. But its rhythm and music are unforgettable and make you love it; and if you hear it in some distant corner of the world, it makes you homesick...
...Manhattan, the extent of the prairies and the beauty of Niagara. If you allow yourself to be irritated by their talk it will mean you cannot find things to equal them in Britain. ... If an American soldier brags about his country, in all probability he is feeling pretty homesick for it and just to talk about it brings his homeland nearer." >"Don't talk about Chicago gangsters as if they represented 90% of the population. The films have fostered this impression, but the vast majority of the American people live much as we do and have the same religions...