Word: dessertation
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...Caesar salad with chicken for lunch, followed by several small sweets from a cake shop. At dinner, she ordered three more salads--although, to be fair, one was served with a tuna fillet and another was shared with the table. And she did scoop up every bite of her dessert, an espresso granita with whipped cream. Still, De Laurentiis turned down nearly all the many alimentary offerings routinely presented to famous chefs by fans and job seekers. Except for two bites of chocolate someone made for her, De Laurentiis ate nothing from the many gift platters. In Mischel's terms...
...into a candy-bar like wrapper. One product that the Center for Science in the Public Interest says to avoid is Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Blueberry Yogurt Bars, which are high in sodium, low in fiber, and not much better for you than the sweetened stuff people usually call dessert...
...attendees of this past October’s infamous dessert riot, this Harvard Yearbook description may seem to describe Harvard College Libraries’ (HCL) decision to keep Lamont open 24 hours a day on weekdays. But this year-in-review blurb was actually written 50 years ago, celebrating a successful student campaign in 1955-6 to extend the undergraduate library’s weekday closing time from 10 p.m. to the wee hour of midnight throughout the school year...
...immediately immensely popular. Approximately 1,500 students showed up at Lamont on the night of October 17, 2005 for a party thrown by the UC to celebrate the Library’s new hours. Tempted by fruit tarts, chocolate mousse, and burritos, students arrived en masse at the dessert riot and disposed of the food within minutes...
...General Mills realized that the real Americans eating their yogurt from those slim, tapered cups were women in their 20s and 30s. A low-fat version of the Original followed in 1987. Sales soured in the early 1990s as yogurt struggled to define itself as an everyday snack and dessert, although many consumers saw it more as just a diet food. Eventually, consumer tastes caught up with yogurt's image, and a growing concern for fitness turned yogurt into what Sanger calls "a lifestyle badge...