Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passion pits," are rented for the occasion from the Grey Line. Langenthal says he has never had an accident nor arrived at Wellesley too late. Too late, that is, for a twenty-minute wait for a twenty-minute goodnight before the male constituency is rounded up for the homeward ride...
...Pacific the Army transport General William O. Darby radioed a plea for an iron lung to save John Driskell, 6, son of a sergeant homeward bound from duty in Japan. The Coast Guard cutter Iroquois raced 1,000 miles from Honolulu with a lung; the boy was transferred to the cutter and taken to the hospital in Hawaii...
After 21,500 miles of flying, and four weeks of interviews, the 13 correspondents in the U.S. press party were too tired even to play poker. Homeward-bound on the KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) Constellation Franeker, they were in no mood for the kind of horseplay that had brightened an earlier leg of their Indonesian tour, when Nat Barrows of the Chicago Daily News whipped out some scissors and trimmed the luxuriant locks of the Houston Post's James Branyan, while two other newsmen held him down...
Sanctuary. In Atlanta, an injured pigeon with its tail feathers gone and right side badly mangled interrupted its homeward flight long enough to alight on the lawn of the S.P.C.A. for repairs...
When the shouting had died and the contestants were homeward bound, the correspondents gathered about Tom Bolles, a sort of local oracle on these matters. His first remarks were in part...