Word: homesickness
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...other was 53-year-old Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had finally persuaded the President to let him quit as ambassador to Moscow. Weary and homesick after three years of war duty as chief of staff to Ike Eisenhower, and three years of cold-war duty near the Kremlin, "Beedle" Smith will move to New York's Governor's Island as commander of the First Army. The Moscow job, said the White House, was wide open...
Tacho's fat-pig policy was paying off. For diehard Nicaraguan exiles, the legion's end meant that nothing short of a thunderbolt could now topple Tacho. Homesick and penniless, they had begun drifting back to make their peace with the porky dictator. He was glad to see them: "I want all Nicaraguans home. I like to have 'em close, so I can keep an eye on them, bless...
When the cold struck, upper-class Cantonese got out kerosene stoves to heat their homes. Visitors from the north and foreign diplomats retreated to cold, damp, black-&-white-tiled hotel rooms where they vainly tried to fight off the chill. Said one homesick New Yorker: "You'd think we were exiled in the men's room of the Pennsylvania Station...
...call his kind of music le jazz hot. Last year, when he went to France for the Jazz Festival at Nice (TIME, March 8), President Vincent Auriol himself sent Louis a large Sevres vase. But after each trip abroad Louis says: "Europe's fine, but I sure get homesick for the ol' U.S.A...
...young wanderers turn up there-boys like 17-year-old, shock-haired Karl Waldhauser, who had been drafted to work in a Russian-zone uranium mine. After three days on a pneumatic drill, Karl escaped and crossed the border at night. Says he: "I never get homesick. Maybe that's because my father and mother are dead. Now I want to be a farmer...