Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loyal readers who suspect the Sterns of going straight, a few pie-in- the-face recipes are thrown in, including seafoam lime Jell-O mold with marshmallows and Mary Bobo's carrot casserole, a concoction made with Ritz crackers and melted cheese. It should be noted that the Sterns and Fussell give quite different recipes for New Orleans red beans and rice, yet both are credited to Buster Holmes, operator of the famous French Quarter greasy spoon. Quite possibly the old master cook never makes that dish the same way twice, which is why there probably cannot...
...prospective new majority leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is a master of parliamentary strategy. But even back when Democrats ran the Senate, before 1981, Byrd was not a leader who could mold the party's agenda or articulate it well in front of the cameras. For these reasons he faces a spirited challenge from J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, a bright and more telegenic moderate who feels that a majority leader should use his office as a "bully pulpit" for projecting Democratic values to the American people. A secret ballot will be held by the Democratic caucus next week...
...money buys negative ads; it pays for extensive polling so that candidates can mold their image to the voters' archetype; and it indebts the candidates to their donors...
...guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he wrote Arab and Jew. "I felt I had to be true to my own impressions and views, and that I had to write in my own voice. This is always hard for a Times reporter because you're forced into a mold in the news columns of The Times. It's on the one hand this, on the other hand that that and rarely are you free to really write the way you want to write and the way you feel you can write...
...level of radioactivity set by the FDA for produce (100 kilorads) is not strong enough to slow the ripening of most fruits and vegetables. Plant Biologist Noel Sommer of the University of California at Davis has concluded that 200 kilorads is needed to retard the growth of gray mold on picked strawberries, and at that level the berries turn squishy. Other claimed advantages may have drawbacks. Irradiation "can kill the organisms that produce the signals and odors that warn people they are eating spoiled food," cautions Leonard Solon, director of New York City's Bureau for Radiation Control...