Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis, and may not lead to it at all if the rest of the diet is properly balanced. But the cause-and-effect relationship in France is so clear and so common that he calls cirrhosis of the liver la maladie du gros rouge. The vast majority of 8,000 victims studied had drunk two to three quarts of the stuff every...
...Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have entered the language: "She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"; "The Skin You Love to Touch"; "Which Twin Has the Toni...
Among the 46 AM & FM radio stations in New York City's metropolitan area, no two are more surly toward each other than WINS, which gets top place in pulse ratings by a rock-'n'-roll diet of the top 40 popular tunes, and WMGM, which (scorning the cornier corn) stresses news and public services and pays for such square taste by lagging at fifth place in the ratings. One morning last week, in the heat of the competition, WMGM fell for an embarrassing hoax that gave WINS a chance to josh its rival all the rest...
...month-old son, Baker got word that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had declared him persona non grata on grounds that he "systematically violated the norms of behavior for diplomatic representatives." Translation: John Baker was persona too grata to the young Russians, who had been raised on a stiff diet of hate-America propaganda...
...maintaining a near-perpetual cycle of food: use the pilot's wastes as food for algae, which will convert them into something edible, also consume carbon dioxide and make oxygen. Another possibility is foreseen by the Navy's Biochemist Dr. Carl Clark, who offers the spaceman a diet of sugar water, enriched with vitamins, minerals and protein factors, and thickened with shredded paper towel. It would taste just as good, he says, every time around...