Word: marshmallow
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...stares. He has black half-moons under his eyes that make him look like a high school football player. "It makes me sick too," he says, "I was just on for 14 hours straight." I look closer and realize his face is as puffy as a marshmallow; I assume that the machine has just punched him out. Either that or someone couldn't wait to get on his terminal...
...price for an ineffective foreign policy. A weak policy can't be redeemed by getting tough on farmers." George Bush declared that the embargo "cuts off our own nose more than it hurts the Russians. Talking about cutting off fishing rights is like hitting the Soviets with a marshmallow...
...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...