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Word: homesick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. While visiting, Getty plans to look over an art museum he is building on his property in Malibu, and check out a clutch of buildings in which he has financial interests but has never seen. "I admit it," said the 79-year-old Getty. "I'm getting homesick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...lived fully enough to have few regrets. At 56, he is a youngish old Africa hand. He left his native Ireland when he was 18 for life on a Kenya farm. As an officer in the British army during World War II, he helped round up Mussolini's homesick legions in northeast Africa. A more difficult job was keeping the Somali nomads from each other's throats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Found Continent | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...McLean, 26, seems to evoke them all in his new 8½-minute single American Pie. The song mixes the good sounds from 1960s jukeboxes with the bad news from 1960s headlines (notably Viet Nam) to produce the most surrealistic, impalpable pop lyrics since Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Montage of Loss | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Yankees, and Black Outfielder George Altman (30 homers), late of the Chicago Cubs. Lopez, who was raised in New York City and went to Japan to "give my kids a better environment," said last week: "I just can't wait to get back to Tokyo. I'm homesick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Learning by Doing | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Most of the other Orions were too busy at the training table set for them by their hosts, the San Francisco Giants, to get homesick. Convinced that the Western diet is the secret to the power of U.S. players, the Orions wolfed down platters of roast beef, steak, corned beef and cabbage, brownies and, after a few lessons on gnawing techniques, corn on the cob. Something worked. After losing their first five games by narrow margins, the Orions exploded for eleven hits to trounce the Oakland Athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Learning by Doing | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

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