Word: homesickness
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...ground: their military men and women under siege, a casualty count that exceeds the toll of the first Gulf War, anti-Americanism in a land where they had been told our forces would be greeted like heroes, costs reaching a billion dollars a week and going up, some troops homesick and disillusioned, their spouses and parents having no idea when they will see their loved ones again--and no end in sight to any of it. At a gate to a 3rd Infantry Division base near Fallujah last week, Sergeant Michael Baroni sat on a tank and dreamed of drinking...
...pseudo family for homesick expats, a place of endless sundowners and fluttering Union Jacks?as well as these characteristics, the archetypal Empire clubs, until the late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join...
...mothers, that will be too late. Valdez doesn't know whom to blame--doctors, lawyers or insurance companies. She just knows that come late July, she will have to spend the final, awkward week of her pregnancy waddling around as a houseguest. That's enough to make anyone feel homesick. --By Leslie Berestein
...history but considering a switch to geography (apparently still a cutting-edge discipline in Britain), and he's teaching himself Swahili. He confesses that he was initially unhappy at St. Andrews and considered dropping out. "I was a little uneasy," he says. "I don't think I was homesick; I was more daunted." He also confesses to trying the local custom of wearing a kilt. His verdict? "It's a bit drafty." Gotta protect those crown jewels...
...Bezjian brothers are from Armenia, and their cooking did not always have a Cajun influence. But this winter, Rlickman became homesick for the flavors of New Orleans, so they surprised their friend with Creole coffee, grits and Creole seasoning...