Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dived right through it, opening up with their 20-mm. cannon. All four of the Germans were hit and one caught fire. The German fusillade punched 150 holes in one of the Spitfires and broke its elevator cable. But its pilot kept it in the air for a hundred homeward miles and landed safely. Reconnaissance planes found only a litter of wreckage mingled with Nazi corpses, bobbing up & down on the water...
...have seen a minor American diplomat recently accredited to a small Balkan State moving homeward over a crowded road, with 13 suitcases and a Hungarian wolfhound half the size of a Shetland pony. By some strange freak of international diplomatic courtesy the 13th suitcase and the hound had priority over fighting men equally anxious to get along in the westward stream...
...best four years of your life." That was what they would say if they said what was inside, Vag thought. What is Semitic 12, Sociology 19, English A2, and History 14a in comparison with the daily forming and stating of idealism's, the angry bull-sessions, the satisfaction of homeward treks as the sun comes up, the dashing of hopes, and the sudden thrill of Making The Board, the ferment intellectual and otherwise, the roar of the presses, the reports of the thoughts and actions of Harvard and of the world? "The House Committee reports . . . more organization . . . as President . . . lack...
...Pacific U.S. ships form a long thin supply line stretching from Panama to the Straits of Malacca and the Java Sea; to the ports of the Dutch Indies, Singapore, Penang; to the Indian Ocean and along Africa's coast. Homeward bound most of these ships bring the U.S. vital Far Eastern cargoes. Outward bound many of them have been carrying supplies to China, Russia and the British in the Middle East...
...other side of Africa, in British Nigeria, he boarded Pan American Airway's Cape Town Clipper, which was homeward bound on a test flight to the Belgian Congo and back. One day last week, Steinhardt landed in New York. For newsmen, the tall, angular man who has been observing the agony of Russia from inside had only: "Until I report in Washington I have nothing to say." At the White House, before the President left for Warm Springs, Steinhardt began his report. This week, with the President's return, he will read on from his diplomatic book...