Word: homesickness
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...always homesick," O'Connor told TIME last week. But she loved her summers on the ranch, where she had plenty of time to read. A dog-eared Book of Knowledge encyclopedia, copies of the National Geographic Magazine and her father's assorted volumes from the Book-of-the-Month Club fed her curiosity. By the age often, she could drive both a truck and a tractor. "I didn't do all the things boys did, but I fixed windmills and repaired fences." Recalls her girlhood friend and cousin, Flournoy Manzo: "We played with dolls, but we knew...
Foster has two surprisingly simple reasons for his exotic plans. "To begin with," he says. "I'm homesick. I really love Africa--I was born in Zambia and I grew up there and in Angola...
...sponsorship groups and churches have supplied housing and taken over additional details of resettlement for most of the boat people, as well as some help for the 23,000 other Indochinese refugees Canada has accepted. This degree of personal involvement among Canadians has given an emotional boost to the homesick refugees...
Though none regret coming here, Bing, Lynn, and Jia Chang all say the transition hasn't been easy. Bing and Jia, who have no family in the U.S., are occasionally homesick, but say calling each other and Lynn often helps. "Sometimes we have to talk Chinese--we get desperate," Bing jokes...
...McCarthy and team captain Martha Clabby, another inseparable harrier pair, and in sixth was Becky Rogers in 18:43, her best cross country race-- "by far!" Becky recalls being puzzled that she and other harriers kept hearing their names yelled during the race. It turns out there's a homesick exharrier down at Princeton Grad School who got a hold of a program and did his best impersonation of a cheerleader to urge the Crimson on to victory...And now, for those of you who were left breathless with suspense after Saturday's missing persons report on the harriers--after...