Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...
Normally, sterile bulls are sold as low-grade beef. But Rupert was an exceptional case. Wayne Fox of Des Moines heard about Rupert's problem, and offered his good offices. Fox and his wife took over, and put Rupert on a diet to" thin him down to 1,200 Ibs. They had a theory that he was so "overfitted" that his sexual hormones were lost...
...Navy was already working out a thinning diet for itself. Navy Secretary John Sullivan announced that the Navy was closing down nine air stations (eight of them on the West Coast and in the Pacific) and laying up 72 vessels (only 15 of them major combat ships) to squeeze inside its budget. In doing so, the Navy was also shifting its weight around, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, where the Navy would add 30 new combat ships. But the Navy, already possessor of the mightiest aircraft carrier fleet in history, was still going ahead with the building...
...smashing electoral victory to the conservative government of cigar-smoking Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal party. With 263 seats of his own, and the support of 70 almost equally conservative members of the Democratic party, Yoshida would have for the next four years an overwhelming majority of the Diet's lower house of 466 members...
...exhibition in two Manhattan galleries at once. They were composed mostly of straight lines and right angles, thinly painted in pure colors. Coming at a time when many abstractionists content themselves with syrup, tar, mustard, muscle and a soup spoon, Albers' reticent craftsmanship was a welcome change of diet-thin, but digestible...