Word: marshmallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Thursday I sat at Thanksgiving dinner with my extended family, buried in food and conversation and enjoying the soporific effect of the sweet potato-marshmallow casserole. With the kids at the card table, the elders sprinkled around the periphery, I couldn't help noticing that my generation had become the core of our large family. Try as we might to delay the growing-up process, by marrying and having children late, my sisters, cousins and I have finally graduated from the kids' table. While that has its advantages (uncontested second helpings of pie, for instance), it also confirms...
...Marshmallow Fluff is a dorm-room favorite for sweet tooths and old boy scouts alike. Somehow, its creators have been able to capture the melted insides of patiently toasted marshmallows and shove them into a jar. Its taste resembles Cool Whip: Light and, of course, fluffy. And each container of sweet goo costs only 79 cents...
...making a S'more" in a microwave oven, said Nikki B. Usher '03, referring to a snack that is made from melting marshmallow fluff and chocolate bars between two graham crackers...
Although they're not certain what is causing the blasts, astronomers attending last week's conference have some ideas. When ordinary stars burn out, they may become neutron stars, dense bodies with gravity fields so powerful that a marshmallow falling into one would release as much energy as a thousand hydrogen bombs. If two of these bodies began orbiting each other, they would ultimately collide, leading to titanic gamma-ray blasts. Other researchers believe the bursts are due to especially large supernovas, great stellar outbursts called hypernovas...
...Others put much less of a premium on putting their premises on the table in a clear fashion," Shepsle says. "It's hard to punch a marshmallow...