Word: homers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national leaders like to employ overblown rhetoric to justify their decisions to send troops into combat, but once the shooting begins, those who must pull the triggers or staff the home front seem to prefer heroic mythology to the reality of fire and death. Understanding this, war correspondents from Homer to Ernie Pyle have tended to rein in their normal skepticism, serving up instead what both the government and the public want to hear...
...ball was eventually fielded by left fielder Mike Greenwell, who threw to second baseman Jody Reed. Reed's peg home beat Sorrento, who was trying for an inside-the-park homer...
...nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered." Moral: "When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." He recalls the Greek phrase he learned as a seminary student: asbestos gelos -- unquenchable laughter. "I traced it to Homer's Iliad, where it was used to describe the laughter of the gods." Moral: "He who laughs, lasts...
Decareau did more damage in the Crimson's four-run fourth inning, cranking a two-run homer that plated Marcel Durand in front of him. Shortstop Dave O'Connell's two-run single extended the lead...
...display surveys American art from 1830 to 1930, a critical period in which our national style took shape in the hands of artists like Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and George Inness. American art celebrated the dignity of everyday life and everyday people, stripped beauty to its bones, proving that art can be as frugal as the bare New England landscape, as simple as a bowl of oranges on a white table cloth...