Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columns slowly started up again. The throng swelled to an estimated 35,000, as bystanders and homeward-bound workers joined the parade. In the forbidden Plaza de Mayo, the marchers halted before the buff-colored cathedral and waved their white handkerchiefs. The sea of white signified not surrender, but support and defiance-support for the church, defiance for President Juan Perón, who last October began waging an off-and-on war of harassment against the church (TIME, April 4 et ante...
...were to conclude that the islands are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, then they might be defended. Chiang was bitterly disappointed and did not bother to see Dulles to the door when the luncheon was over. That evening Dulles took off through the same mist, homeward-bound, to make his report to the President and by TV to the nation...
...great road that stretched from Rome to Brindisi on Italy's southern coast. Laid out in 312 B.C. and already famed in Caesar's day, the Via Appia became known, in the centuries that followed, as the Queen of Roads. Many a victorious Roman legion marched homeward in triumph along its stone paving and over its skillfully engineered bridges. Wealthy Romans built their most sumptuous villas and tombs along its right of way. Along the same road the Apostle Paul trudged to his martyrdom...
...bring some pottery to her house. He follows. She brings him tea; she offers him love. He cannot resist. "I never imagined such pleasures existed!" he cries. "You are my slave," she murmurs. At long last, a Buddhist priest frees the potter from her spell, and he turns back homeward. When he reaches home, he finds his wife dead. Only her spirit is there to comfort him, saying, "Go back to work...
...Communist conquerors of Geneva continued their slow, triumphal progress homeward, waving at friends, accepting bouquets and basking in the plaudits of admirers-and those who suddenly found it wise to be admirers. After listening to Warsaw's official cheers, Red China's Chou En-lai and the Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong moved on to Moscow. There, Foreign Minister Molotov laid on a huge reception, attended by foreign diplomats, top Russian brass and correspondents. Afterward, they were honored with a lavish dinner presided over by Premier Malenkov himself, flanked by the man who jostles...