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Word: homers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holdovers. It was one of the few times that Sorensen irritated Kennedy. "Don't do that," he rasped. "We made this mistake." Before the successful conclusion of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Kennedy was certain that his failure to heed the early warnings from Republicans such as Homer Capehart and Kenneth Keating about the missiles would bring Democratic defeats in the fall. Some aides wanted to deprecate the Republicans, but Kennedy refused. "Capehart," he told Sorensen, "is the Winston Churchill of our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Violation of the Public Trust | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...almost lost last night to its own Triple-A Farm Club, the Pawtucket Red Sox of the International League, but a three-run rally in the sixth earned the parent team a 4-2 victory. The Red Sox trailed 2-1 going into the sixth, but a lead-off homer by Cecil Cooper, followed by a base on balls, an error and three more walks put the American League team out in front to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOX DOWN ON THE FARM | 5/7/1974 | See Source »

When Bill Crowell unloaded a homer in the sixth off reliever Mark Linehan, the Crimson's chances looked very poor, to say the least...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Last-Inning Rally Gives Crimson Nine 6-5 Win Over Cornell for Twinbill Split | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Thomas De Quincey's mother, who ought to have known one when she saw one, called the infant Thomas Babington Macaulay a "baby genius." From the age of three, "Clever Tom" was a compulsive reader whose idea of a wild childhood game was to act out Homer, reserving for himself the role of Achilles. At six, the future author of the five-volume History of England was at work on a compendium of world history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Bust | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...Pierre clouted a two-run homer over the left field fence in the fifth and Leigh Hogan's sixth inning sacrifice fly knocked in LaCivita to up Harvard's lead...

Author: By James B. Moorehead, | Title: Crimson Wins Night Game; Brown Baseballers Bomb | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

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