Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somebody called "the greatest quartermaster since Moses" reduced the weekly diet of every bacon-loving, tea-bibbing Briton to four and two ounces respectively, his sugar to eight ounces, meat to a shilling-and-tuppence worth (about 26?), fats to eight ounces, and milk to two and a half pints.* Woolton got Britons to tighten their belts and live with the notches permanently drawn in. To the Bill and Lizzie Smiths across the length & breadth of the British Isles the name Woolton stood for honest control without favoritism, or, in his own Lancashire idiom, for "a fair do all round...
Premier Koiso graciously accepted a petition from the Diet's fretful representatives and peers; i.e., he agreed to a demand for an emergency , session to discuss the "extremely serious" war situation, promised a "detailed and clear report...
This decision was a triumph for Italy's Catholic, conservative Foreign Minister Alcide de Gaspari, a Tyrolian who was once a member of prewar Austria's Bundestag (Federal Diet). His negotiations with Maurice Couve de Murville, the French representative in Rome, hinged chiefly on one point-the special privileges hitherto granted to the large Italian population of French Tunisia, who had kept their Italian nationality, and had their own schools under a treaty of over 50 years' standing...
Henceforth Reuters' big sales force in Europe, the Middle East, India and South Africa will devote part of their time to building Gasoline Alleys on the Danube and giving every Hottentot a daily diet of Dick Tracy. In return, the Tribune-News syndicate's wide-traveling salesmen in the South and West will take Reuters everywhere that Little Orphan Annie goes...
...Clendening wrote such readable copy that 383 newspapers (combined circulation: 25 million) ran his daily "Diet and Health" column. His book, The Human Body, sold almost 500,000 copies. He scoffed at nostrums for lengthening life: "Nothing anybody does to himself after he is born makes more than a few hours' difference. . . ." So he was all for turning diet over to that "very efficient monitor-the appetite." He once shocked the dry state of Kansas, where he taught medicine, by declaring that what the country needed was a good 5? shot of whiskey...