Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing stop pushing its pro-Communist foreign policy and "class party" domestic line...
...Chinese Communists keep Peking's tiny complement of foreign correspondents (about 25) penned up like zoo animals, spoon-feed them a diet of propaganda seldom adulterated by truth. But now and then the tamest specimens, i.e., those with the staunchest Communist records, are led forth for a blinkered stroll around the compound. Last week 19 such journalists returned to Peking after a three-week tour of ravaged Tibet...
Undoubtedly, with the number of undergraduates at the College, the lecture and course system will remain the basis of the curriculum. Lectures have some great advantages; the principal one is that they present the "great men" of the faculty to a large number of undergraduates. A diet of lectures alone, however, can lead to intellectual sluggishness. Freshmen have had General Education A to give them the experience of a discussion course, but the majority of Gen. Ed. A classes (the honors sections are notable exceptions) can prove puerile and stultifying...
...years, he was the Dwight Eisenhower of the days before his heart attack. His weight stood at 174 Ibs., just 2 Ibs. over his best football weight at West Point. His blood pressure held at a healthy 140/80. He continued to take anticoagulant drugs, held to a low-fat diet, but felt free to wander into the kitchen of his Gettysburg farm to order "nice fresh corn" for lunch. His habits, too, were those of the same old Ike. He arose at 7 or 7:15 each morning, showered, shaved, had a small steak for breakfast...
...protect children from whatever may harm them," says the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. "We are weary of being told that although a steady diet of aggression and violence may be harmful to children, there is no evidence to show that it really is ... Must we wait for statistical and clinical proof?" Last week in its magazine, National Parent-Teacher, the congress answered the question with a resounding no, and then proceeded to publish its own clinical evaluation of the shows children watch on TV. A sampling...