Word: homesick
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Judging from such books, American writers are a homesick lot. Perhaps they ought to go home more often, but write about it less...
...small hitch: as an American, he could not accept public office under the Greek government without relinquishing his U.S. citizenship. Put that way, there could be no question about which country Mike Colikas felt he belonged in. "I'll tell you very sincerely," he said. "I'm homesick for Pittsburgh...
...Gundolf has been a member of the family. "Can you imagine" says he, "I have one of their rooms and all their food and they give me presents. These denims I'm wearing, and this, how you say, crazy sports shirt. I never got the idea of being homesick...
...nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble or a graceful jar that was intended to carry syrupy wine to some homesick outpost near the Pillars of Hercules. Or he finds a forgotten concrete jetty built by Roman engineers to protect the harbor of a busy city that is now a fishing village...
...this fall, Democrats underestimated the power of plump, matronly Fern Armitage Johnson, wife (for 47 years) of Colorado's Democratic Senator Edwin Johnson. Big Ed has never lost an election and seemed sure to win again in November. But after 18 years in Washington, Mrs. Johnson felt homesick for Colorado. Last week Big Ed announced: "Mrs. Johnson has developed a complex about living longer in Washington, so retirement is a must...