Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to Hell on a fast horse in a porcupine saddle." The boy broke away and wandered, sounded the depths of dereliction in "that gay capital of the sporting world, St. Louis." He married, became bandmaster of Mahara's Minstrel Men. His story of those seasons is a homesick, gaily colored set of lantern slides about a form of entertainment that has vanished...
...spots the bridegroom had never visited: Niagara Falls, Land of Newlyweds. Now 39, father of two, FitzPatrick has a small "self-sustaining" island near Victoria, B.C., and a consuming desire to make feature pictures. War or no war, he no longer cares to roam, says plaintively: "Now I get homesick...
...disease, "evacuosis," has become so serious that the Ministry of Health has stationed a psychiatrist in each reception area. Typical case: a twelve-year-old girl, homesick, stole twelve toys from a store, wrapped each in a package with a note (e.g., "With love from Cousin Gloria"), posted them all to herself...
...invasion of England was repeatedly postponed and hopes of a quick peace faded, the soldiers got quieter and quieter. Homesick talk vastly increased, photographs of families were more in evidence. R. A. F. raids on Antwerp and over Germany sandpapered the soldiers' nerves. Against strict orders, they got drunk oftener. By September, soldiers were forbidden to carry sidearms. More & more of them listened to the London broadcasts (penalty, two years in a concentration camp). Such symptoms might never focus in revolt; but it was safe to say that German morale could never regain its high pitch of summer...
Colonel Pfeil's main task (under the technical supervision of Adjutant General Emory S. Adams) is to keep the boys from getting homesick. His weapons: motion pictures, ping-pong, baseball, pool tables, camp huts where soldiers can dance, play games (crap shooting is discouraged), write home under the eye of impregnably respectable middle-aged hostesses...