Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foods are unsurpassed anywhere. Russian white flour, for example, is superb, making for the best of breads, cakes, pie crusts and blini. Milk, for some reason, is thin and watery, but the sour cream is excellent. Ice cream, rich and smooth, is among the world's best, though vanilla is usually the only flavor available. Kefir, a kind of cross between buttermilk and yogurt, is exceptionally good, as is a soft curd cheese called tvorog. Fruits and vegetables are found only in season, but often have more flavor than those in the U.S. Canned salmon and crab meat...
Inspired by Mark Gottlieb of Olympia, Wash., who set a record for playing the violin under water, Japan has come up with an entire underwater orchestra, a first. To raise funds for a local charity, a man and a woman in Des Moines lovingly sat in tubs of vanilla pudding for 24 hr. 34 min. 20 sec., the only record ever set for a pudding sit- but one that will no doubt be challenged...
...accumulated roughly 1,383 delegates, compared with Kennedy's 746. Needed to nominate: 1,666. Ohio helped to clinch the nomination for Carter in 1976, and his aides are already talking as though victory is again imminent. Gloated Campaign Director Robert Strauss: "It's all vanilla for us from here...
...center of the revels will be the cake--handiwork of Arthur Strasnick. Weighing 7-8000 pounds, the cake is eight feet long as has 11 tiers. Although the cake is vanilla-flavored, Strasnick has decorated the cake in red, white, and blue and added pictures of scenes from Boston's history...
Rodriguez had trained for weeks, carefully strengthening his stomach muscles with daily sit-ups and pushups. Good thing, since he subsisted on pizza, tacos, hot dogs and vanilla milkshakes that were donated by well-wishers. Except for a five-minute break every hour, Rodriguez rode the whirlwind, passing the time by reading newspapers and catching naps. After 173 hours and 3,958 laps, he had set another record. Why does he do it? Said he: "It's like climbing mountains -because they are there. The first 15 hours are the toughest. After that, time and space come together...