Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities for the day, e.g., calisthenics, scalp massage, "intracellular masque," daily manicure and pedicure, a reducing ordeal that consists of being coated with hot wax and left to stew. In between treatments, she is firmly encouraged to drink down plenty of vegetable juices, "potassium broth," and a secret-formula "diet...
...Cliff. Born the son of a diet-faddist physician on a ranch near Palm Springs, Calif., Gibson grew up haunted with "recurrent dreams about clawing my way up the face of a cliff." At 18 he clawed his way onto the old Los Angeles Record because "at the time I was under the misapprehension that being on an afternoon paper meant that you worked only in the afternoon." Ever since, through numberless odd jobs on newspapers and in radio, he has been getting up "at the crack of dawn and hating every morning...
...rocket, the Jupiter-C. Its first stage, which contributed most of the push into space, was the familiar, well-tested Redstone, fitted for the occasion with slightly longer fuel tanks, and burning a hydrazine-based, exotic fuel called Hydyne, which gave more thrust than its motor's usual diet of alcohol. Stuck on its nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets, 40 in. long and 6 in. in diameter. Atop the bucket was a single, 80-in., solid-fuel...
...adult diabetic should get long-term treatment with either insulin or tolbutamide until he has reduced to a proper weight and it has been shown that diet alone will not control the diabetes...
...temperatures-half of them went over 100°. Nearly all had tender, enlarged lymph nodes, tenderness in the abdomen, and pharyngitis. A few were first treated as outpatients, but soon had to be admitted to the hospital. There, with no treatment but bed rest and a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet, they unaccountably got worse. Their livers, which had been enlarged in most cases on admission, became bigger, and so tender that the airmen resisted the medics' efforts to examine them. Half of them also had enlarged and sensitive spleens...