Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the President had signed into law more than 50 bills pouring in from a homeward-bound Congress. Some of them, like the bills for the domestic control of atomic energy and for U.S. participation in UNESCO, were of first importance. At least one-the much-needed bill for congressional reorganization-was a welcome surprise to the U.S. people as well as the President. Others were out-&-out pork-barreling...
...gracious, my good gracious," laments a homeward-bound G.I. in Brewsie and Willie, "Oh my good gracious, oh my good gracious . . . my good gracious. I just could kind of just cry when I think we all got to scratch around and worry, worry and scratch around, and then those bills, pay everything on the installment plan, and coming in and coming in, oh dear, sometimes I just burst out crying in my sleep, I am older than you boys ... I could just burst out crying...
Gertrude Stein, whose expatriate thoughts at 72 have been turning homeward, had a couple about G.I.s: "You know, those G.I.s kept pinup girls all over the walls of their barracks-like religious icons. They idealized women, but, when they walked the streets of Paris, many of them would be drunk and would leer at and insult almost every woman they met. American boys are virginal, for only virgins would act that way. They liked the German women. When they made love to German women, the German women did all the work, like cows they did all the work...
Earl Browder also hippety-hopped homeward, from his junket to Moscow. When reservation trouble (or something) slowed him down in Britain, the Security Police put him up between hops-incommunicado...
...fellow athlete trudged homeward, Vag had visions of sneaking down to the courts before breakfast some morning and getting in a fast game. The church bell couplet announced that five-thirty had arrived, just as they reached the corner at Eliot House. "Race you back," muttered Vag, disgustedly...