Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appetite of corporations to replenish their coffers after last year's tight-money pinch. New private and public bond issues rose to a record $10.4 billion during the first half of 1967 as against $8.4 billion in the first months of the year before, in what Partner Sidney Homer of the Manhattan bond house of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler calls "an exceptional, almost hysterical stampede to the money market...
...mellowed," he announced this spring. He did make a few cracks about the advancing age (36) of the Cubs' two-time Most Valuable Player, Ernie Banks-"Old grampa's wearing out"-but he took those words back last week when Banks hit his 17th homer of the season. The rest of the Cubs got the sugar lip-and the results are astonishing. Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, whose record last year was 6-8, is 12-7 this year. Centerfielder Adolfo Phillips, a .260 hitter in 1966, is batting .290. Third Baseman Ron Santo ranks third in the National League...
...Moose Skowron's line drive. He then ended the inning (see picture) by throwing our at the plate Don Mincher, who was trying to score from second on a single. Yastrzemski threw out the California first baseman, who had given the Angels their early lead with a three-run homer, by a margin so wide that the runner didn't slide...
...author's gentle and poetic little 1962 novel The Lilies of the Field went almost unnoticed as a book, but made it fairly big as a motion picture. Actor Sidney Poitier won an Oscar portraying Homer Smith, the book's footloose handyman hero, who used ingenuity, faith and adobe bricks to build a Catholic chapel for a penniless order of German-speaking nuns. In this sequel, Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short...
...whose lifetime average is only .278, banged out 16 hits in 36 trips to the plate to raise his 1967 average to over .330. There he found himself battling for third place in the standings with Cardinal First Baseman Orlando Cepeda, who won one game with a two-run homer-and clinched another with a three-run blast. Rightfielder Roger Maris, batting a solid .302, contributed an eleventh-inning double that drove in a winning run against the Houston Astros and an eighth-inning homer that beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2. Two other Cards -Centerfielder Curt Flood and Leftfielder...