Word: homesick
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They were homesick for Bikini, and the Navy could not make them fully understand why Bikini was not a suitable home any more. But the Navy could take them somewhere else. The native leaders looked over several other islands and finally chose a mile-long speck called Kili, 500 miles from their original home. There was no lagoon but there was plenty of water, much breadfruit and many coconuts, more than on Rongerik, more even than on loved and unforgotten Bikini. Last week the little band of atomic exiles, now numbering 181, were settled on Kili, making the best...
...Abbey's life; stuffed birds and animals from its zoological collection; the molten pipes of its great 17th Century organ, contorted into weird sausage shapes; rusting German machine guns with ammunition belts still attached. On the dark walls are crude sketches of female figures traced by homesick German soldiers, and a Rhenish landscape with the caption Oh, du wun-derschöner Deutscher Rhein (Oh, you beautiful German Rhine...
...dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence Davison, a "gypsy" horseman who taught him the ABCs of being a jockey...
...didoes. The Washington Post flew Mrs. Lois Guerrieri, who sent the bride a green taffeta dress and thereby got an invitation to a tea party, to London as its special correspondent. (But it was the New York Herald Tribune's Don Cook who "doctored" her stories. She got homesick, flew home the day before the wedding.) One wire serviceman (U.P.'s Robert Muesel) filed a 2,400-word "past tense" account of the wedding in advance, padded out from the program. Then he sat in the Abbey checking his story and saved valuable time by merely radioing...
...prefers Highland Farm, which was furnished by Mrs. Hammerstein, a professional interior decorator ("We didn't get cute"). There he rises at about 7:30 and gets a massage by Peter Moen, a bald, powerful Norwegian, without whom he refuses to go anywhere (partly because Peter is homesick, Hammerstein has decided to take a trip to Scandinavia next month...