Word: homesick
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...blue, the fields were sprouting fresh green. During the lull in the fighting, G.I. laundry hung on the barrels of tank guns; some soldiers went swimming in the Han. In spite of their high spirits and their confidence in themselves and their commander, the troops were homesick. Despite his optimism, the Eighth Army's Commander Van Fleet could not promise them a decisive victory that would send them home soon-not until someone persuaded Washington, as he had persuaded the Greeks, to seize the initiative, to take the offensive, to go after the Communists in their lairs...
...home in the Russian sector, cautiously going out only at night. A few days later, three men in plain clothes called on Nocht and took him away at pistol-point. That, at week's end, was the last anyone had heard of the man who had got homesick...
...choir decided not to go back to Dresden. One girl who was worried about her mother, and another who was about to be married, went back. Business Manager Pulst argued long and loudly against leaving the East zone, persuaded four more girls to go home. The rest, homesick and afraid of reprisals to their families, faced the uncertainty of getting a living in the West. Said a 27-year-old soprano: "Yes, my family is still in Dresden. The idea that I won't see them for God knows how long isn't very cheering...
...Rome, homesick Albanian emigres listened attentively to what sounded like good news from home-a major Communist party split...
While riding the rods East in 1922 to work his way through Columbia Law School, the homesick Northwesterner was tempted to turn around and go home when he talked with a mountain-loving hobo in the Chicago freight yards. A quarter-century later, in 1948, Douglas left his judicial robes behind him and took his annual trip to the Cascades. On top of Old Snowy, "the froth of life seemed to blow away." He thought of every nation's "beehives of intrigue," where "the strength of one man becomes the source of insecurity of another" and the "destruction...