Word: homesick
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...Homesick for the Desert. All over the earth the quest has spread for undiscovered chapters of man's history. The wonder is that in the spate of technical activity a place remains for a pure surface man like Glueck. But he has earned that place many times over. After the partition of Palestine between Israel and Jordan in 1948, the Holy Land calmed down a bit and Glueck took stock. He liked the job of college president and had made a great success of it. Hebrew Union College is now a plush and prosperous institution. It has merged with...
...devotion to Cincinnati, his wife and his son Jonathan, Glueck was still homesick for the desert; he longed to finger potsherds again, squint into the setting sun for the shadows of ancient trails, feel the Bible come alive in his hand as he walked over Biblical lands. But settled parts of Israel were not his style; he did not like routine digging. And he could no longer explore in Arab territory. Jordan officials still denounce him as a spy who mapped their country to help Israeli invaders...
...Edward A. Crane '35 said last night that the City had lost "a good and devoted public servant." Crane called Lynch "a wonderful citizen and a very unusual one," and recalled that "he never liked to leave Cambridge. Whenever he got as far as East Arlington, he'd be homesick...
Somehow they do. The homesick hound relentlessly follows his nose, poor old Bodger staggers after him, and the cat, snagging a field mouse here and a partridge there, has the time of his lives. At last, after three weeks of battling bears, eluding lynxes and floundering in raging rivers, the four-footed friends come face to face with the jagged Ironmouth Range. "Oh, Mother," says Bodger's owner, a heartbroken little boy who has been getting fragmentary progress reports of the incredible journey, "there's no hope...
...Ibis, a rare bronze variety of Threskiornis aethiopica, has been missed before but never for so long a time. American Airlines pilot Edwin Walter, who saw the bird winging westward over the Golden Gate as he was preparing to land, said "it looked happy though homesick." Walter took several photographs of it from a cockpit window...