Word: homesickness
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...Manhattan, the extent of the prairies and the beauty of Niagara. If you allow yourself to be irritated by their talk it will mean you cannot find things to equal them in Britain. ... If an American soldier brags about his country, in all probability he is feeling pretty homesick for it and just to talk about it brings his homeland nearer." >"Don't talk about Chicago gangsters as if they represented 90% of the population. The films have fostered this impression, but the vast majority of the American people live much as we do and have the same religions...
...Army & Navy well know the importance of news-from-home to the soldier and sailor and marine away-from-home. From every direction came evidence that the American away from home is the most homesick man in the world...
Training was not the only problem for Eisenhower and his staff. A big army of raw soldiers who had not yet learned all about discipline, who were spoiling for a fight, who were homesick, young and frequently rowdy, posed a problem in itself...
Andy went off to teach college in Texas, but he soon got homesick for the purple, smoky hills and unlearned mountain folk of Georgia. So back he went, bought himself a small piece of land and began to keep school for his neighbors. His school, first called Rabun Gap, eventually merged with a small Presbyterian school with the Indian name Nacoochee and became the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School. "Dr. Andy" developed it into a hillbilly college even stranger than its name. One part is a junior college for boys & girls, who mix book learning with farm work, which pays most...
...beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...