Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they didn't understand me." Even in Special Services, the average draftee did not dig his insistence on clean fingernails. Things were better overseas. Crossing to Guadalcanal on an Army troop transport, he took on a Caine-type commander who kept the soldiers on a near-starvation diet. One day during an alert, Paar got into a lifeboat and announced: "I've been asked to make an announcement that there was a Japanese submarine in the vicinity, but unfortunately the Navy gun crews have driven it off. I say unfortunately because the Japanese submarine was trying to bring...
...freed men were not nearly so carefree as some of those released earlier. They had fought off hordes of flies, had slept on the ground or in hammocks made from dirty burlap bags; more than half had dysentery from the uncertain diet. But they kept up military discipline and set their own order of release: married men first, then men with the lowest rank. As the last helicopter departed, the rebels turned their attention back to the business at hand: a rumored offensive by Dictator Fulgencio Batista...
When, after Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the world, the Shogun of Japan sent a special emissary to Washington in 1860 to observe the U.S. Congress at work, the appalled official duly reported back: "It's like the Nihonbashi fish market!'' Japan's own Diet, patterned in part after the U.S. Congress, was even more a fish market last week. What should have been a mere formality-the re-election of pro-Western Nobusuke Kishi, 61, who had resigned as Premier in accordance with the constitution after the last general elections (TIME, June 2)-turned...
Since his Liberal Democrats had won the election so handily. Kishi was automatically the man for the Diet to name as Premier. But, having won, Kishi wanted to do things a bit differently from the past, when minority parties got a share of key Diet posts. With some justification, he accused the Socialists of using important committee chairmanships to sabotage legislation (they often did not show up for work, as a way of delaying action). Kishi, bent on responsible government under his own control, demanded that all 16 committee chairmen of the House of Representatives, and the Speaker...
...kind of magic potion. Common crotchets are taken for the stigmata of genius; petty fears mushroom to paranoia. A Gulbenkian day began with setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays...