Word: homesick
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...losses and a tie, Tech played one last game-against Michigan State, a team it already had beaten twice before at Houghton. Only this time the game was in East Lansing, Mich. No nickels, dimes and firecrackers, no raw eggs and rotten fish. The arena was even heated. The homesick Huskies lost...
Like most mountaineers, Floyd has tried his luck up North; he worked in an Indiana foundry, tenant-farmed in Ohio. Each time, he came back as soon as he could save a few dollars. "You're all the time homesick when you ain't in this hollow," says Handshoe. "It bothered me fierce. In a city you got a certain job, and you go to the store and buy from one mess to the next. You can't get credit in a place like Ohio. Just about any store around here will give you credit...
...rock owes its origins to Bob Dylan, 24, folk music's most celebrated contemporary composer. Much to the despair of the folk purists, Dylan first bridged the gap between folk and rock six months ago by adding a thumping big beat to the elliptical verses of his Subterranean Homesick Blues. He followed with his biggest folk-rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone, and the big-beat groups were quick to latch on to his songs, most notably It Ain't Me, Babe by the Turtles and Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds. Booed during a performance at this...
...Nazi-occupied Poland, accompanied Polish army units in the Italian campaign as a war correspond ent, and told their story in his best-selling book Battle of Monte Cassino. Soon after war's end he settled in the U.S. with his wife and daughter, became an American citizen. Homesick and impressed by the new intellectual freedom under Gomulka, he visited Poland in 1958, then four years later settled in Warsaw permanently. At first he was lionized by the regime. But last March he joined 33 leading Polish intellectuals in issuing a sharp protest against growing intellectual repression...
...special friends. Taunted by Münch that he had perhaps been merely a passing fancy, the Greek whipped out a postcard of the Acropolis postmarked only a few days before in Athens. It bore no signature but only the message: "Now I can understand why you are homesick for your lovely country...