Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outdone, Japanese declared Miss Shizue Yamaguchi, 28, the most beautiful woman in the newly elected Japanese Diet. In the first election in which Japanese women have ever run, Miss Yamaguchi, a Social Democrat, was elected to represent Tokyo's First District. When not legislating, she works in her father's bicycle factory, where she is typist and sometimes head cook...
...piece out Britons' starvation diet of reading matter, the Board of Trade had agreed to let in magazines from within the Empire. Through that breach in the cultural ramparts, a trashy flood poured in from Canada. Bookstalls unloaded over 6,000,000 comics, westerns, detectives and sex pulps. The comics, full of rocket men and bosomy girls, were the biggest surprise of all; British children's comics are mainly animal or flower stories. London street hawkers took in up to ?15 a day. Customers paid up to 25. 6d. (50?) for such gems as Vivid Confessions...
Burma was probably worse off than any country in southeast Asia. Rice, the main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan...
...ready explanation for its shocker. Editor Yoshio Kaneko was just doing his best to teach his readers Western democratic habits. U.S. nudist camps are noted for purity of thought, said Sun Photo Times; "wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of Japan's Diet [which includes 39 women] deliberated . . . while naked...
...quiets down and the patient leaves the hospital within twelve days. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgeon Francis D. Moore reported that vagotomy is especially effective for young or middle-aged men with a long history of peptic ulcers. Nonetheless, Drs. Dragstedt, Moore, et al., advise the operation only after diet and other treatments have failed. For nervous stomachs and the "tensions and strains of modern life," says Dr. Dragstedt, preventive psychoanalysis may be better than nerve-cutting...