Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngster, he learned golf under the stern eye of his brother Homer, who showed him how to drive a ball toward a hole in a cow pasture, and gave him a kick in the pants every time he muffed a shot...
...finest piece of craftsmanship in the June Advocate is a translation by John Wilson from Euripides' Bacchae. Classics. Homer. Euripides. Bronson Potter. Not the Same...
Ever since June 1952, when Lawyer George North Craig of Brazil, Ind. went after the nomination for governor, Indiana's two Senators, Bill Jenner and Homer Capehart, have opposed him. Craig, onetime national commander of the American Legion, won the nomination, and five months later was elected by the biggest landslide in Indiana history...
...present has its pressagents as the past had its poets (Was Achilles really that good, or did Homer just make him seem so?), and the ballyhoo is plastered no more thickly around movie folk and politicians than around the men and animals who compete with the elements, with the clock, with weight or age or strength or with each other, in the name of sport. But a true champion's feats endure because of what the champion himself adds: an undying spirit of competition, an ability to inspire awe, a willingness to gamble on losing, the guts to lose...
Yale tied the score in the third, and moved ahead 2 to 1 in the fifth, when husky Eli first baseman Huge Guidotti slammed a homer over the right field fence. Then Andy, Ward, McInni's mound starter, weakened, and gave up two runs in the sixth, making the score 4 to 1 for Yale...