Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essence of Higgins mismanagement when he said recently that the American League emphasized power at the expert strike zone which doesn't happen all the time -- he's been bombed. Higgins manages the Red Sox as if Jackie Jensen, Ted Williams and two or three other forty-homer men were in the lineup. The face is, of course, they aren...
Another member of the 150-man U.S. delegation, Homer Jack, 46, director of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, was booed and hissed when he denounced U.S. and Soviet atomic tests with equal bitterness, but when he contrasted the freedom of SANE to criticize the U.S. Government with the regime-controlled propaganda of his peace congress hosts, there was only shocked silence. Later, when a group of British, U.S. and Scandinavian youths started a ban-the-bomb march near the meeting hall, police snatched their banners and threatened to deport them as "provocateurs...
...sarcastic no-trespassing notice he published in the weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer's. Faulkner began to survey his birthright in 1929, with his third novel, Sartoris, modeling its chief character after his own greatgrandfather, Colonel William Falkner (as the name was spelled then). The old colonel, a Civil War hero, railroad builder, bad novelist in the manner of Walter Scott, and excellent...
...Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still and all, the smaller (34 in. by 30 in.) and less ambitious St. Bartholomew had brought the fourth highest auction price yet for a single painting. When the painting was knocked down (to Agnew's, another big London art dealer), the old gentleman got up and drove...
...After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year...