Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradual Fraud. But the fraud, like the voyage itself, proved too much for Crowhurst to sustain. As he turned homeward, Tomalin and Hall believe, Crowhurst decided his faked log could not stand up to a full investigation. Unable to face exposure, he was driven to insanity and at length to suicide...
...Look Homeward...
...thronged downtown district. They were there to check reports of a leak. Minutes after they had begun work, the driver of the service car switched on his ignition again, and a sheet of flame enveloped the vehicle. As the driver struggled free of the flames, hundreds of homeward-bound pedestrians crowded into the area. As it turned out, the blazing car was only a deadly preface. Moments after it caught fire, the first in a series of massive gas explosions tore through the crowds. "When I regained consciousness," recalled one survivor, "I lay flat on the street about...
...Homeward Bound...
...Voltan gold miners, Ivorean timber merchants and beggars of all nationalities. The luckier ones started out in trucks or wood-frame "mammy wagons" whose fares have jumped more than 400% since the exodus got under way. For many, travel by whatever means stopped at the border. Groaning lorries carrying homeward-bound Nigerians and Dahomians are stalled in columns miles long because they have not received permission to cross tiny Togo. An unknown number of people have died of hunger and exhaustion...