Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
...ancient Hindu shastras, Dr. Sanyal reports, prescribed a diet of peas for widows to reduce the sex drive. If it failed in this, it might still cut down fertility...
...There he presented Rubinstein with a handful of pornographic pictures. "Why?" asked Artur. "Because that's the only thing you seem to be interested in these days," said Dukas. That slap in the face and the stern lecture that followed sent Rubinstein to the country and a milk diet. But after a short while there was another love affair ("Terrible, terrible-I had to fight a duel with the husband"), and Rubinstein was soon thin as a stick again...
Adam is about as adroit emotionally as he is politically. A long-legged secretary is unaccountably mad about him, but he takes to her with the ardor of a man on a diet taking yoghurt. The Eurasian girl he takes to bed turns out to be as mixed up in her political senses as she is in her veins: working as an agent for both the French and the Communists, she is eventually caught and doomed. At novel's end Adam Patch is recalled to Washington, the victim of what Author Shaplen plainly indicts as U.S. failure to pursue...
Mostly the Harlem Diet. Operations helped his eyesight twice, and then he went blind for good. Soon he was as broke as the day he wandered into the Lenox Athletic Club. Whenever he could cadge the price of a meal, he always filled his pockets with restaurant toothpicks. "Most of the time I'm on the Harlem diet now," he explained. "When I'm hungry and I ain't got the price of a feed, I drink a glass of water and pick my teeth. Then I use my imagination...