Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filipino children impaled on Jap bayonets; the notorious compounds at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate among captives had been as high as 250 a day; the filthy and vermin-ridden compound at Pangatian, where every foot of ground finally was a filled-in latrine; the diet of rice, sweet potatoes, radish tops, "pigweed," fish powder; the beatings with hardwood sticks; their friends who had died...
Hill & Daler. In India, Aboo Nagha, 60, whose daily diet consists of one meal, three cups of tea, no alcohol, 25 cigarets, was honored at the Bombay Olympic Games for finishing a 26-mile marathon, deserted by his wife, who considered him "unsatisfying...
Although he has thrived on the newspaper diet over since his college days, he finds himself regretting that he must return to that work in July. "You know," he admits with a chuckle, "when I first walked through the Yard last fall, I know I should have come to Harvard 15 years...
Eleanor Roosevelt, having gained a few pounds over the holidays and noting that her Term IV inaugural dresses were a larger size (36-38) than her 1932 costumes (34-36), went on a not-too-strict diet: no more mayonnaise, butter, potatoes, hollandaise sauce, meringue glac...
...faggioli ... a perfect, well-balanced" noodles dish, cooked with "nice, brown kidney beans," escarole and onions. The starch-wary Mayor reported that pasta faggioli was so full of "the vitamins, the starches, and everything you need" that "when we have pasta . . . I have to go on a very strict diet for the next week...