Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after the Central Committee meeting, the Supreme Soviet, most unanimous of the world's governments, met in Moscow. After. dutifully applauding the Khrushchev plan, the members flew back to their home territories to tell hungry Soviet masses about their new diet of iron...
...seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need for selfdiscipline, the right mood ("If you're mad enough you can often win"), the right diet. That advice was not always easy to follow...
...nuclear accelerator. Its engineers developed an infra-red drying process for the South's textile industry, and its botanists have helped lead the fight against such tobacco plant diseases as blue mold and Granville wilt. Duke scientists established a worldwide registry for fungus diseases, successfully used the rice diet for high blood pressure, worked on every type of research from new techniques in plastic surgery to a vaccine for equine encephalitis...
...because of refusal to eat properly. Skin infections and contractures (contracted-burn scar tissue) made it difficult for him to move his limbs and neck. Within a few days after hypnosis began, he was taking 4,200 calories per day, became cheerful and cooperative. Thanks to improved diet, skin grafts began to "take." Twelve weeks later, B. W., healed, walked out of the hospital...
...stockholders, it is run virtually as a public trust: no stockholder may hold more than 3% of the stock. The paper's international readership attracts advertisers in English, French and German. But Editor Bretscher has no intention of going for more readers or advertisers by leavening his heavy diet of political analysis with easier-to-read news and features. Says he happily: "I hope we shall always edit a good paper and never cater too much to public tastes...