Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Dempsey's newly divorced Hannah Williams made a singing comeback on Broadway after 13 years' absence and several days on a soup diet. Her latterday debut a thwacking nightclub success, the hungry redhead looked forward to a steak as soon as her nerves lay down again...
...call an extraordinary session of the Diet on Oct. 25, to rubber-stamp all changes planned by Tojo...
...century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness after the second or third liter...
...Department of Agriculture warned the U.S. people to prepare for big changes in their diet in 1945. Example: they will get a lot less meat, a lot more beans...
...round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...