Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most valued new properties in show business says modestly: "I'm not good-looking, or experienced, or what you'd call a 'build.' Why has it all happened to me?" For some of the reasons, see THEATER, Look Homeward, Angel...
...Hours. The steel-hulled Pamir set sail from Hamburg last June for Falmouth, England, and Buenos Aires, with a complement of 53 cadets and 33 veteran seamen aboard. Last week, homeward bound from B.A., she was struck by the full (127-knot) force of Carrie, which the skipper had not expected to hit for a full two hours. Even as Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper...
...weeks later Leopold was set free on bail, though two of his companions, both Algerian, were kept shut up in prison. Whatever the price of his freedom, Marcel Leopold was called upon last week to pay it. Bound homeward for lunch at his roomy third-floor apartment on Geneva's sunny Cours de Rive, he staggered through the door, fell into his wife's arms muttering, "I've been poisoned!", and died...
...began. In 1930 her The Greek Way appeared, immediately caught the imagination of both scholars and general readers. It contained no musty footnotes, no pedant's bibliography. Edith Hamilton's raw material for her reconstruction of Athens was the literature of Greece itself. Whether describing the great homeward march of the Ten Thousand ("So. always cold and sometimes freezing, always hungry and sometimes starving, and always, always fighting, they held their own"), or the achievement of Aeschylus ("In a man of this heroic temper, a piercing insight into the awful truth of human anguish met supreme poetic power...
Last week, with the model island village ready for occupation, a U.S. Navy LST set sail from Kwajalein loaded to the scuppers with happy homeward-bound Rongelapese. They were a far cry from the worried souls who three years ago had called themselves "the poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there...