Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, finished with public ritual for the day, Ike passed a quiet afternoon alone with his family, contemplating a merciful dispensation from his cautious doctors. Just this once, said they, he could fall off the diet wagon (1,800 calories daily), filling up on as much of the Eisenhower's 4O-lb. turkey and trimmings as he thought he ought to. At dusk, Ike sat down to his groaning board and followed doctors' orders...
...nonsense, said the A.M.A. Journal, to advise mothers to cut out all sweets (including fruits and other foods containing natural sugar) from the diet of children with high rates of tooth decay. It is all right in such cases to cut out candy, .heavily sweetened drinks, etc., but to eliminate all carbohydrates is unwise-and also impossible...
Next day Dr. Harry & Co., who were collecting marine specimens near by, raced to the village and bought Eugenie for $20. She was given a sulfa treatment for her spear wound and nursed back to health (on a diet of clams and cucumbers) in a local swimming pool. No available aircraft could carry a tankful of water big enough to enclose a sea-elephant, but since the taxi ride proved that Eugenie could live out of water, Dr. Harry decided to fly her home on an air mattress...
Last week the kuromaku of politics went to work and in a twinkling rearranged the whole stage. They consolidated Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, into one gigantic party, the Liberal-Democrats, which will control 300 of 467 seats in the Diet's Lower House. The merger marks the beginning of the end for Ichiro Hatoyama, who as a candidate was a great vote getter, but in office has been a weak, indecisive and garrulous Prime Minister. Hatoyama will stay in office until next April, but with a new Cabinet...
Champagne Diet. Monteux gets his results partly by impeccable musicianship, partly by his remarkable vitality, partly by personal appeal. Says Tenor Tucker: "I love him. I want to hug him the minute...