Word: homesickness
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...Canada, South Africa and other countries that have room-seems the best solution; because of the tight quota (3,153 a year), few Dutch emigrants get to the U.S. Some, like Harrie Lamers and his twelve children who headed homeward last week after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must be opportunities for people like...
Though far from the comforting rumble of the Third Avenue "el," Gardner is not likely to become homesick. Under the new law, 50 U.S. companies (chinaware, leather goods, textiles) have already moved to Puerto Rico and more are expected by boat and plane...
...were those classic victims of the 19th Century-the father who took to drink and violence, the brother who went mad, the brother who took opium. There were also such delights of life in the hills and lanes of Lincolnshire that at Cambridge in 1827 the poet wrote a homesick set of lines complaining that the smoke of the university town besmirched the pure stars...
Five times daily, Hafiz and Bashir spread their prayer mats and, facing toward Mecca, go solemnly through the Moslem prayer ritual. "Sometimes," says Bashir, "we get awfully homesick; then we work very hard and pray to forget...
...memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here." A U.S. Military Government court in Frankfort this week sentenced McCarthy to eight months in prison for entering Germany illegally. McCarthy, surprised at the sentence, said he would appeal...