Word: lemons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Beattie walked Amos Otis and Pete LaCock to load the bases, Yankee manager Bob Lemon went to his star-studded bullpen and came up with the untested Clay. Clay allowed a run-scoring sacrifice fly to Royal designated hitter Hal McRae and then went on to no-hit the A.L. West champs for the rest of the game...
...annoyance, is still considered something of an apprentice. "When I'm 18," she declares, "I'm going to have my own combine and all-woman crew." When Susie says things like that, Byron makes a face as if he's just finished sucking on a lemon. Jessie, proud of his daughter, but more comfortable with the idea that a woman's place is back in the house trailer cooking up corn biscuits, smiles and takes another chomp on his cigar. Meanwhile. Joe's son Allen, 4, scampers around the trailer on his toy John Deere...
...lessons in how to handle America's latest aquatic tool (or toy). Sitting on a special launching ramp at the back end of Aquatic, the machine in question suggests a curious cross between a wind-up bathtub toy and a James Bond movie. It is a lemon-hued, one-man submarine, the S 250, a 12-ft.-long, 2,250-lb. vessel that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs (at $12,000 without extras) less than a Cadillac Seville...
Conceivably, Dostoyevsky might have been intrigued by the circumstances of the wedding itself, which, as Greek newspapers reported with some acidity, was "short, simple and cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together...
Martin's replacement was an unflappable former Cleveland star, Bob Lemon. But the drama was not over. At week's end, during Old Timers' Day ceremonies at Yankee Stadium, it was announced that Martin would return to manage the Yankees in 1980. The crowd cheered as Billy trotted onto the field...