Word: homesick
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...Bavarian branch of the C.D.U. was split between a conservative Catholic wing and a liberal Protestant faction, and to heal the breach, an appeal was made to Strauss, a Catholic, to run for minister-president (governor) of Bavaria in November. Deliberately, Strauss let it be known that he was homesick after all, and perhaps it would be nice to return to Munich...
Mostly, they were homesick for their windswept island and wanted again to feel pride in eating what they grew, wearing what they made, and living out a life that was hard but simple and eminently suited to their spare tastes. Willie Repetto, the 60-year-old leader of the islanders, claims, on the basis of a Royal Society expedition, that the lava flow has actually improved the island by creating a breakwater, and last week he appealed to the British Colonial Office, asking for help in returning to Tristan da Cunha...
Scandalously deserting Britain's hallowed Hastings international congress at mid-tournament, the U.S.'s dogged, dazzling women's chess champion. Lisa Lane, 24, alibied, "I felt homesick, and besides that, I am in love." With whom? Mooned she mysteriously: "I am not engaged. I am just in love." But next day the once-divorced Lisa admitted that her white knight was American Weekly Reporter Neil Hickey (who had written a smitten profile of her two years ago), added, "I am discussing only my own feelings and cannot speak for him." Hickey's feelings: "The story...
...Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only place in Paris where a homesick American could buy a genuine...
Andy MacElhone admits that the tone of the place has changed: "The present generation is quieter. Americans in Paris are no longer homesick, and young people today are much more serious, even solemn. Perhaps it's the world situation. Today most of the American customers want to talk politics. Twenty years ago, it was the last thing they mentioned...