Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to keep a newly adopted child; and Maria Schrallhammer, the maid of 23 years who in her sharp German accent and precise detailed accounts "nailed" her master by testifying that he refused, both Decembers, to call a doctor though he knew his wife was sick both became instant celebrities...
...brass band struck up the national anthem, and, for an instant, there was a bit of magic. Duarte affectionately waved to the crowd with both hands. Many waved back to wish him luck. But the moment died with the fading notes from the band. The crowd dispersed in silence and the President was driven off in a heavily guarded group of armored vans...
...before they had disclosed Moscow's hand in the martial-law crackdown. Reagan has followed the cabled details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back in Moscow, as they worriedly waited for the changes that inevitably follow any unexpected interruption in totalitarian authority...
...reason is that salt and sodium lurk in unlikely places (see chart). Limiting salt is not just a matter of giving up pickles, pretzels and anchovy pizzas, or throwing out the salt shaker. A single serving of instant chocolate pudding can have twice as much sodium as a small bag of potato chips, and a scoop of cottage cheese three times that of a handful of salted peanuts. Thanks in part to the sodium in baking powder and baking soda, baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans. Preservatives such...
...basic. But some of it varies according to regional tastes. Sophia Taylor, 64, has learned low-sodium cooking in a follow-up program for hypertensives in Jackson, Miss. Because she is used to salt-heavy Southern dishes, some of the things she was warned against are special. Avoid instant grits. Do not use self-rising flour, because it is full of soda and baking powder. Do not cook with salt pork. Use yeast-leavened bread. The course also gives instruction on how to make low-sodium corn bread and biscuits. Recalls Taylor: "Before my taste buds adjusted, the squash...