Word: homering
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...Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew's 30th of the season, blasted the way to an 11-5 victory. Last week Pinchhitter Rich Reese cracked a grand-slam homer to lead the Twins to a 5-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles, runaway leaders of the Eastern Division. That blast sent Baltimore Righthander Dave McNally to his first loss since last Sept...
...bored by last week's All-Star game. Held in Washington's new Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, the contest clearly reflected the re-emergence of the crowd-pleasing "long ball." In the second inning, Cincinnati's Johnny Bench blasted a two-run homer off the New York Yankees' Mel Stottlemyre, who was ultimately tagged with the loss. Washington's Frank Howard sent a towering drive over the centerfield fence in the American League's half of the inning. Then the Nationals sent nine men to the plate and scored five runs as San Francisco...
There might have been a sixth but for Boston Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski, who robbed Bench of his second homer with a leaping catch against the fence...
None appreciated the painting more than Eugène Delacroix, who compared its creator to Homer. An aristocrat who was reputed to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand, Delacroix both extended and refined Gros' epic romanticism. Though his high baroque style claimed no successor, Delacroix's techniques in juxtaposing complementary colors influenced Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionists. He hit upon the method on a visit to Morocco in 1832. He found that by counterpointing color opposites, which by the law of optics fused in the eye to form gray, he could attain at once...
...Neff, both veterans of previous launches. Neff, who spent two years reporting from Saigon, finds that space "is all the things that despairing war is not. The space program is affirmation. It shows that man's spirit is just as daring and questing as in the time of Homer...