Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stewart went the distance, getting his sixth win of the year against two defeats. The freshman yielded only six hits, all of which were bleeding singles except for an "excuse me" change-up that Venema jacked for a two-run homer in the third...
Charlie Santos-Buch started the scoring off with a home run to lead off the second inning. The Crimson got two more in that frame, and added another in the third and three more in the fourth, the last two coming on Stenhouse's two-run, two-out homer to dead center field...
Another issue divides Greece and Turkey: Who controls the Aegean? Homer's wine-dark sea is dotted with 3,049 Greek islands, some of which are only a few miles from Turkey's shores. Two years ago, the U.S. was able to mediate successfully between the two NATO partners when they approached the brink of war in a territorial dispute. Greece hinted it might extend territorial waters from six to twelve miles around each island; the Turks warned Washington that that would be a fighting matter, and the Greeks dropped the idea. With both sides now so angry...
Brown came in with the score 5-3 and pitched well (despite walking four), but made one mistake in the sixth to Davis, who clocked his second homer of the day, a solo smash to right. Three runs down, two innings...
...After taking a 1-0 lead in the third (Dave Singleton scored on Charlie Santos-Buch's basehit to right), starter Paul McOsker cruised along with a two-hitter until the fifth, when two hits and a walk loaded the bases and waited for a Bob Davis homer to clear them...