Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oval Office. Down the hall, Ron Nessen keeps three more Doonesburys, all poking gentle fun at the press secretary. Downstairs, in the office of White House Photographer David Kennerly, who covered the Viet Nam War for U.P.I, and TIME, there is a set of Doonesbury panels depicting a homesick Viet Cong terrorist writing to his mother from an assignment in Laos: "How I wish I could be home violating the truce accords." Down the street, Treasury Secretary William Simon hoards a series of Doonesburys drawn in 1972, when Simon was the nation's first energy czar. They show...
...homesick for the States or bored with this life. Costa Rica is a lovely country. Great weather...
...department of education for a parking lot (now occupied) by a faceless building), there had been acrimony, arguments about the nature of progress, between usurpers and usurpees. This time, no." By now, Daddy is resigned to constant change, to being part of a "mobile family." Even though he is homesick for America, and his family wants a secure home, they will not settle down. All the Daddy-author can do is try to live with the latest of a series of rented houses in a strange environment, where the only good thing he can find about the new house...
...country. I am ashamed of my country today." Is there any hope for Argentina? "No−oh, maybe in 200 years." Borges is almost totally blind, but he knows how shabby Buenos Aires has become, "and I still get homesick if I'm away for a few months...
...more than a century Saigon has played coy mistress to a series of foreign masters. Seemingly pliant, she has been occupied by Chinese conquerors, French colonialists, Japanese invaders and American troops. When the French arrived in 1862, Saigon was an unprepossessing village of palm trees and straw shacks. Then homesick planners dreaming of Paris remade her to suit their own visions. Narrow, winding streets were rearranged into the neat geometry of spacious public squares and broad boulevards. A twin-spired cathedral, an opera house, a palace were built to grace the squares. But if Saigon was kept in style...