Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drabowsky was the legendary victim of Stan Musial's 3000th hit, the hit that gave Early Wynn his 300th victory, and the famous homer of Dave Nicholson over the stands in Comiskey Park...
Short, of the Phillies, held the Dodgers to one run for eight innings, weakening for two more in the ninth when the game was well out of reach. Bill White's three-run homer in the seventh helped put it that...
With that kind of money, the museum often second-bids the Met, as in the case of Rembrandt's $2.3 million Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in 1961, frequently top-bids it. Equally important, hard cash often buys the right to a first look. Over the years, Cleveland has made remarkably astute use of its money, sometimes with the help of a little histrionics. The museum's second director, the renowned William M. Milliken, was given to weeping openly at meetings of his acquisition committees...
...roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed the Government's suit, ordered the package delivered. When, in 1937, Attorney General Homer Cummings announced that the Government would not carry the case to the Supreme Court, the mails were opened for good, although it was not until last year that Connecticut became the last state to lift its ban against birth control clinics...
...final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging of a Savonarola in Florence or the thrust of the Civil War cavalryman's saber as seen by Winslow Homer...