Word: homer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drew, the sharpshooting son of coach Homer Drew, scored 27 points, including 8-of-12 3-pointers. But he was shut down by a smothering box-and-one defense through most of the second half, when he was held to eight points...
...forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...
...note-heavy presto rondo. The cadenzas in both the first and third movements had dramatic as well as technical and even visual interest: Haefliger played with his eyes closed but turned toward the ceiling, and wore an expression of ecstatic concentration, his upper body resembling a bust of Homer. The orchestra that had commanded comparatively little attention for the majority of the piece came into its own toward the conclusion, matching Haefliger note for note...
...Homer said work-study students have long been employed in community service...
Approximately half of the undergraduates who receive university tuition grants, and 23 percent of all undergraduates, are on federal work-study, Homer said...