Word: rhubarb
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...made the term famous, and now Yankee Baseball Announcer Red Barber, 58, was all tangled up in a rhubarb himself. No sooner was the Yanks' new boss, CBS Vice President Michael Burke, in office than he fired Barber, who had reported Yankee games for 13 years. Reason? None that Burke cared to announce, except that it was part of a general shakeup. Red thought it might have had something to do with the recent night when the Yanks played to exactly 413 paying fans, and he suggested that the cameras pass around so the TV audience could count...
From 300 yds., only the black snout of a machine gun could be seen, poking between green spikes of wild rhubarb on the black slate ridge. Smoke from Chinese cooking fires rose in the clear air. "Let's get a closer look," said the Indian officer, clambering down to the road. "If the Chinkos open fire, get down and we'll take care of the rest." Our group of four moved forward, flanked by three jawans with automatic rifles and covered by others in the granite-block fortifications behind us. Around a curve we came on a group...
...Among them: onions, okra, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, tomatoes, rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, snap beans, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, musk melon, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, eggplant, pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, parsley...
...capers a fertile source of copy. "I prefer beer to champagne and tinned salmon to smoked," insists Wilson. "I am on the side of plain living and high thinking." Actually, Wilson likes steak and wine as well as the next man, but he tucks into packaged custard, stewed rhubarb and canned meat with schoolboyish gusto...
Except for busting Sachs in the snoot ("He called me a liar") and admitting that the track did seem "a little slippery," Parnelli Jones carefully steered clear of the rhubarb. A balding, broken-nosed Californian who began racing at 18, Jones had something else on his mind: deciding how to spend his share of the $148,513 winner's purse...