Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clothing is adequate, but nothing more. The houses are very simply furnished, with one stove supplying heat and providing space for cooking. The Russian peasant probably has a better diet than the urban worker. Each member of a collective farm has a small plot ranging in size from 0.6 to 1.5 acres. More than half the milk, fruits and vegetables of the Soviet Union is produced on these small plots...
Guide to Stardom. To program listings (printed in large type, thus easily read by TV's dim light), TV Guide adds a light diet of gossip ("Sheree North was tossed off a coast-to-coast interview program when she arrived sans makeup when the show was one-third over.") and short features on TV performers. But it is neither a fan magazine nor a catchall for pressagents' puffs. Networks often do not like what TV Guide says about their shows, but they respect...
...poundage down from 210 to 185, his waistline shrunk from 44 in. to a svelte 37, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, 47, thriving on a low-caloric diet to speed his recovery from his heart attack of early July, waved a happy farewell to congressional cares at Washington's National Airport. Then he and his wife Lady Bird flew away home to Texas, where Johnson will loll around a few months in home-town Johnson City...
...More Raw Fish. On appeal to the local Civil Service Commission, Citizen Kane was returned to limited duty, put on medical probation for a year, and sternly ordered to trim down to 222 lbs. before the year was up. While all Hawaii looked on, fascinated, Peter went on a diet...
Then, with the end of his lean year approaching, Kane began to worry about his job. In late June he resumed the diet, slimmed down once more to 261 lbs. by early August. For the second time Mrs. Kane began to take tucks in his uniform, and Peter noticed a big difference in his life: "Before, I used to sit around and give orders. I'd tell the kids, move a chair here, and mow the lawn, and feed the chickens. Now I get up and do it myself...