Word: homesick
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...figures that, after the Japanese government this month lifts its postwar ban on foreign pleasure travel, the travel-loving Japanese will head "like a flood tide" for Hawaii, which, says Osano, "is far enough away for them to forget their worries, but not so far that they will get homesick...
...last somebody has given the recognition long overdue to Munich [Feb. 28]. Your magnificently illustrated article on Germany's gateway to the south has succeeded in making me homesick, something that seven years of living abroad failed...
...Senate in 1941, Maybank owed a political favor to a man in Pickens, offered to make his son a Senate page. The boy turned it down, and Bobby Baker was recommended in his place. He had never been away before, and upon reaching Washington he became miserably homesick. Teacher Hallum heard about it and wrote him a letter: "I asked him not to give up, to stay there and fight because we were all proud of him and we were with him." Bobby's reply was scrawled in pencil upon a sheet of tablet paper. "Miss Hallum," he wrote...
...sure didn't. Within two years the homesick boy from Pickens had eager-beavered his way to the position of chief Senate page. Meantime, he put himself through George Washington University, and, later, the American University law school...
...telephone, dial 0811, and listen. Over the wire came a soft, feminine whisper: "München . . . München . . . München." The tape recording made strong men weep and buoyed up thousands of dispirited travelers, but finally the Munich telephone company had to discontinue the service. Homesick Münchners were tying up all the lines...