Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banzai, banzai, banzai," cried the members of the Japanese Diet last week as they bolted from the chamber, bound for beer and sake in their party caucus rooms. Premier Ichiro Hatoyama's government had just formally dissolved the Diet in preparation for the Feb. 27 general elections. The Premier, who is partially crippled, was wheeled up and down the corridors by his aides, beaming and shaking hands...
Hatoyama is successfully winning Japanese conservatives away from the old Yoshida Liberal Party, while the disunited Socialists, though they are expected to gain between 15 and 30 seats in the 467-seat Diet, are given little chance of outmatching Hatoyama's shrewd, votegetting platform of nationalism, conservatism and a drift to neutralism in the cold...
...said Dr. Ancel Keys, of the University of Minnesota. Insurance company statistics linking excessively high heart-disease fatalities to overweight do not mean that every chubby person must reduce, since fat and overweight are not always related, e.g., muscle-heavy football players are generally overweight, but rarely need to diet. Reliance on simple body-weight control can easily miss the real problem: dealing with the so-called degenerative diseases, e.g., heart and artery ailments. ¶ Despite all the current emphasis on dieting, reported Harvard's Dr. Jean Mayer, doctors have had little practical success so far in developing sound...
...unmagical words; the squabbles merely repeat themselves. Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself. But what stems in part from lack of movement stems from lack of meaning also. Writing his play on an intellectual milk diet. Odets tries vainly for the rich ferment of wine...
Discord in Tokyo. Not everyone thought the problem so simple. For the next two days before the Diet, the opposition hammered at Hatoyama's Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, demanding that he clarify the Premier's offhand statement. Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri and was afterwards purged, had been reassuring everybody that "Japan's place" lay within the U.S. alliance. Now he hedged. "The problem must be studied from the viewpoint of treaty conditions and actual reality," he said. "Japan has recognized the Formosa government. But the appearance on the mainland of a large...