Word: marshmallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diamond glory. For peppery New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin, it's come to be more a hot shove league, a winter of discontent in which Martin almost inevitably ends up in fractious incidents. This season in Bloomington, Minn., the wiry Yankee got into an altercation with a marshmallow salesman who required 20 stitches to close an ugly gash on his jaw. Martin denied hitting the marshmallow man, but Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner decided enough was enough and fired his manager. It was Martin's second ejection as Yankee skipper, bringing his career total to five...
...Food Services Department announced yesterday that it was dropping Nestle as its hot chocolate supplier in favor of a cheaper brand that allegedly scored higher in student taste tests. Food Services is keeping Nestle's ice tea, however, so the decision was a marshmallow dressed up with Harvard's famed public relations timing...
While in Florida on Tuesday, the team will play Sawgrass, the site of last weekend's Tournament of Players Championship won by Jack Nicklaus. The golfer playing Sawgrass sees his ball perform like a marshmallow in a wind tunnel; as even Nicklaus did not record a birdie while winning the tourney with a final round...
cherry and marshmallow...
...custom-built cars that haul the marauding hoods around are driven by pedal power. Lots of people get rubbed out in the gangland power struggle, but nobody dies. The splurge tommy guns, designed with the help of a gunsmith, shoot a substance that looks like deliquescent marshmallow. If anyone is hit by a fusillade of splurge-or, alternatively, with a custard pie in the kisser-their passing is denoted simply and rather sweetly by a frame freeze of their plastered visage. Ultimately, though, pies and even splurge become harmless in a raucous grand finale that finds the entire cast embroiled...