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Word: homers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among them: baseball's Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, golf's Ben Hogan, Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. But never has the myth been so effectively-and quickly-exploded as by Campy's game-winning homer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter: Dear TIME-Reader | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

Hillbilly-humor lovers have already bought more than 110,000 recordings of the month-old Ballad of Davy Crew-cut (Homer & Jethro; RCA Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King Davy & Friends | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...outfield, Minnie Minoso, fighting a dismal batting slump, was found quietly weeping in the locker room after one sorry performance last week ; he came back at week's end to hit a two-run homer against Boston. Minoso teams up with Jim Busby and Jim Rivera to make one of the fastest outfields in baseball. Busby has saved so many games that one newspaper headlined: Winning Pitcher: Busby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slats' Sox | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...this spirit, the House of Representatives voted to cut off appropriations for the buildings. Across the Capitol, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart was waiting in the same mood. After a talk with Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, Capehart boomed: "He told me nothing was settled-no designs agreed upon. I told him the building should have lots of masonry work. I was fearful it would be made out of steel, aluminum and glass. I come from Indiana, and we have a lot of limestone there. Indiana Limestone Company produces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Day of School | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Newk | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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