Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
...only longer than War and Peace, but it has more narrative pull. It's a great novel! I know I don't look it, but damn it, it is! It's the greatest novel we've had in America! What else have we got? Look Homeward, Angel? O.K. U.S.A.? Fair. Faulkner? The Sound and the Fury is his best, but not all that...
...causing a $4,000,000 loss in smashed homes and businesses, radiomen tracked it closely in swift mobile units. Since the twister rarely moved faster than 20 m.p.h., they often sped in front of it, frequently beat police and disaster units to scenes of havoc. They gave thousands of homeward-bound motorists accurate reports on where the tornado was heading, warned of streets already clogged with mangled power lines and telephone poles...
Deep, drifting snow stopped the bus on which Bricklayer Carlo Soriano usually rode home from work in Borgo San Lorenzo. As Carlo braced himself for a long trudge homeward to the tiny Apennine village of Luco on that chill evening about 17 years ago, there was at least one individual in worse straits than he-a small mongrel dog marooned on a ledge beneath a bridge crossing the icy torrent of Le Cale. Crossing the bridge, Carlo heard the dog's whimpering, and clambered down to save it. From that moment on, Carlo and Fido, "the faithful "one," were...
...week over, the Arabs prepared for their homeward trip. Somehow the presence of the somber child had taken the edge off much of the quibbling produced by the cautious politics and flaring passions that surrounded the King himself. The little prince had indeed stolen the show. The proof, in a sense, lay in the two extra trunks bought in the U.S. by the Arabs, in which will be shipped the plastic toys and doodads that are gifts from American children...