Word: homesickness
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...they made. Some were people on the fringes, unable to attain the standard of living that lured them here. Some were frustrated artists who, no longer restrained by government, found they were restrained by an inhospitable market that provided no buyers for their work. Some were plain scared and homesick...
...three undergraduates, all of whom are Summer School proctors, told the hopeful pre-freshmen of the reasons that they decided to apply and attend Harvard and then gave a brief anecdotal description of their years here, sprinkled with some advice. "If you are homesick [when you first come here], keep really busy," advised Meena Manshalaman...
...open a restaurant, is something of a state celebrant; indeed, so sedulous is his enthusiasm for Mississippi that one need only ride along a few short miles listening to him before the bitterweed growing wild on the shoulders of the road begins to look like daisies. "I get homesick when I have to cross a border," White says, and he means...
...emphasize the ongoing tensions, Peking and Taipei differed sharply over what motivated the pilot, Wang Hsi-chueh, 57, to divert the plane to Canton. Wang told a press conference in Peking that he had been homesick and wanted to see his father and brothers. Officials in Taiwan, however, claimed that the defection of the $48,000-a-year pilot was the result of coercion and had been carefully planned. They pointed to the well-drilled precision with which Chinese army troops surrounded the jet when it landed at Canton and the presence of television cameras as evidence that Wang...
...homesick and I had just come from the middle of the summer to the middle of winter," Ford said. "It's hard coming to a college during the middle of the [year...