Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gamy Diet. In Pittsburgh, when police asked John L. Lloyd and Marbon Crumpton to explain what they were up to, Lloyd replied innocently that he had just eaten lunch, then coughed up eight numbers slips...
...Welch, former special counsel for the Army in its squabble with Senator Joseph McCarthy, reflected on his depressing sojourn in Washington. "The two simple emotions I observed at the capital were fear and hate, fanned to a white heat," said he. "It was frightening to me . . .A steady diet of this . . . will destroy us." Meanwhile, Tennessee's Ray Jenkins, special committee counsel at the long-winded hearings, discovered that he had popped up as Y. Y. Cragnose, a bumpy-beaked character in Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'l Abner. "Cragnose is uglier than I am," rasped Jenkins...
...British researchers reversed the usual order, tried a dog-reducing diet on humans first. Rusks fortified with calcium and amino acids, they found, will streamline anything from a Falstaff-size human to a dachshund in two weeks...
...Alarmed at the growing fad of self-imposed low-salt dieting, the Illinois State Medical Society warned that the diets are futile as weight reducers and are a serious danger to health, especially in summer weather, when body salt is already depleted through excessive perspiration. "The only persons who might [benefit] from such a diet," said the society, "are those seriously ill of heart or kidney diseases [and who are] under the constant care of a physician...
...cantankerous old bachelor with stomach trouble whose only quest in life is a good place to eat. Huysmans adds the pepper of cosmic malice and by the time he finishes tightening the belt of loneliness and despair around M. Folantin's spiritual midriff, ashes seem the principal diet of mankind...