Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...language courses are in the unhappy position of poor relations at a family Christmas dinner. While their neighbors gorge themselves on meaty courses like English 1 and History 1, the language beginners nibble ruefully on lean and rather unappetizing fare. The main obstacle to an improvement in their educational diet is the blind insistence on "reading" as the sole basis and final end of a study of language. This insistence narrows potentially broad studies to mere intellectual workouts. Yet the College requirement of a reading knowledge forces most undergraduates to take this program...
When Speaker Komakichi Matsuoka cried: "Speed it up," an irate representative staggered toward the rostrum, grabbed the chief Diet guard by the necktie and .slapped him over the head. The lawmaker was ejected...
...from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...
...cease. Said he: "In America a representative holds a record for filibustering for two and a half days. I am ready to talk from four to five days." When the Speaker ordered him ejected, Kanada put up the best fight of the three-day battle, holding out against the Diet guards for a full half-hour. His colleagues joined in, kicking, slapping, yelling and throwing salted beans, gumdrops and a wooden pyramided name tablet at the Speaker. Said one representative: "This is really pitiful, isn't it?" Then he began...
...after-effects of the tactical toot set in, other parliamentarians felt ashamed. Last week the Diet 1) finally passed the coal bill; 2) agreed that further deliberations should be conducted with "extreme self-containment"; 3) adopted a resolution sponsored by the women Diet members prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Diet restaurant...