Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merchants with three runs. The fans returned to the stands and McCulloch went back to the mound. Respectfully, the Merchants stood far back from the plate. But Frank's sizzler began to work. He went on to strike out 19 batters and even walloped a seventh-inning homer, but the damage was done-Verdi lost...
STEEL DEMAND will hit about 190 million tons annually within 15 years, some 50% more than current U.S. capacity, predicts Bethlehem Steel's President Arthur B. Homer...
...forefinger, the airman's signal to rev up, means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared that it bothered...
...Homer's concern was forgivable: he had predicted an eight-vote triumph for his amendment to restore the Administration's 35,000-unit program, and had laughed, "Lyndon, this time I'm going to rub your nose in it." Now Lyndon was busily wheedling more votes, and gaining time to do it in the name of senatorial courtesy, i.e., fairness to Humphrey...
...when the poem Venus and Adonis ("The first heir of my invention,") was registered at the Stationers Company. Plays bearing his name began to appear some years later. In 1598, a Rutlandshire clergyman-schoolteacher, Francis Meres, "specifically names twelve of his plays," compares them to the works of Horace, Homer, Sophocles...