Word: homewards
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...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...
...meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...
...resumed our vigil. "We are lucky tonight," said Sergeant K. "The Viets are being polite." Two hours later, it was time for us to head back to Hanoi, and Sergeant K. radioed brief word down to the defenders of Dienbienphu: "End for me. See you tomorrow." As Luciole turned homeward, the drop-zone lights blinked out save for one lone navigation beacon in the dark, a bright symbol of the garrison's famous stand...
Next day the old Prime Minister at tended a government luncheon honoring his Australian opposite number: Prime Minister Sir Gordon Menzies, homeward bound from London. In a thinly veiled warning to Commonwealth colleagues India and Pakistan, Malan told the world that South Africa "stands for the security of white civilization and Australia stands for a white Australia. The day may come when ... the same powers in the Indian Ocean that suggested that the white man must quit Africa might be knocking on the door of Australia . . . When Australia needs a friend, we shall be there...