Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played 'poor man's polo,' " says Stallone. "A good pony cost $15,000; ours cost $200. Sometimes they asked us not to play." After his parents' divorce, Stallone "did time" in a number of schools. Taunted by classmates for his looks ("I was a Mister Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place") and even more unusual name, he began lifting weights...
...more than 400 miles upriver. The new dam has raised the water table throughout the Nile Valley. Another villain has been the high-salt mortar used to restore the flaking monument. "Walking on top of the Sphinx in the morning," says Gauri, "you can hear the stones popping like potato chips...
...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 as sodium benzoate...
...delegates circulated, shook hands, and drank. Lakian and Robinson sponsored the fanciest receptions, the fanciest wines, and live bands. Both candidates met privately with delegates throughout the night. Card, who said, "The convention is not an important part of my campaign strategy," provided beer in paper cups, pretzels, and potato chips...
...always do it in a big way, and after trouncing Yale they dined in especially fine style. Courtesy of BETTY IPPOLITO--last year's softball captain--the entire team descended upon the Ippolito restaurant in Connecticut for a lavish banquet consisting of eggplant parmesan, sausage and meatballs, salad coleslaw, potato salad, breads, chocolate cake, carrot cake and pitches of beer. Not contest to totally satiate the aquawomen, Mr. Ippolito disappeared into the kitchen where he made eggplant parmesan and meatball sandwiches for the short file back to Cambridge. "You always with later that you had taken that extra bite...