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  • The feel of the house key in my hand was like the feel of welcome-home, which is where I was rather glad to be, Geof’s company notwithstanding.

    Generous Death Nancy Pickard 1987

  • The feel of the house key in my hand was like the feel of welcome-home, which is where I was rather glad to be, Geof’s company notwithstanding.

    Generous Death Nancy Pickard 1987

  • Without saying it, the secretary was suggesting we are creating a warrior class of Americans whom we salute with welcome-home parades, but otherwise ignore.

    Rep. Charles Rangel: Sec. Gates: War Is an 'Abstraction' Rep. Charles Rangel 2010

  • She had popped into the bookstore to pick up a welcome-home gift for her 13-year-old, who had been away.

    Darkness Too Visible Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Without saying it, the secretary was suggesting we are creating a warrior class of Americans whom we salute with welcome-home parades, but otherwise ignore.

    Rep. Charles Rangel: Sec. Gates: War Is an 'Abstraction' Rep. Charles Rangel 2010

  • Relatives said they had been planning a welcome-home party for Lantigua, who had been scheduled to return home a week after his death March 31.

    Gulf War II 2009

  • If it were up to him, all terrorists would get a welcome-home party like the one we just witnessed in Libya.

    Justice asks prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogation 2009

  • It was a way of keeping him close to me and I thought it would be a nice welcome-home surprise.

    I.O.U. Elle 2011

  • Kristen had planned a welcome-home party for Kate and me.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • The parade, borne out of a simple conversation between two St. Louis friends a month ago, was the nation's first big welcome-home for veterans of the war since the last troops were withdrawn from Iraq in December.

    Iraq War Parade: St. Louis Hosts First End-Of-War Celebration The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

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