Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This device satisfied some Orthodox Jews, but not the strictly observant. In a handful of Orthodox settlements, hungry farmers stoically watched their idle fields and the fruit rotting on their trees. To vary their meat diet, some Orthodox city dwellers furtively bought apples and tomatoes from Arab hawkers, determined not to purchase produce grown by Jews...
...first general election as a free sovereign nation, Japan last week returned Premier Yoshida's right-wing Liberal Party to power, but that was not the election's biggest news. In the previous Diet, the Communists had held 22 seats in the Lower Chamber. In last week's election, they failed to win a single seat. The total vote cast for the Reds dropped from 3,000,000 (1949) to less than 900,000. It was the biggest ballot-box defeat suffered by any Communist Party since World...
...election laws, including 473 cases of vote buying. Thirteen unsuccessful candidates were thrown into jail the day after the election. Among successful candidates still under .investigation are four members of crusty old (74) Premier Yoshida's party.* Yoshida's Liberals won a bare majority of the Diet (239 out of 466 seats, a loss of 45 seats...
...Munch, this choice is surely a failure either of nerve or of imagination. Indeed, the guests have been fed beef and potatoes with a touch of cola slaw on the side. For this nourishing fare we must be grateful. Yet surely one can design a more stimulating musical diet: something earlier than Beethoven, something later than Brahms. Perhaps you are as weary of playing items of standard repertory as I am of hearing them at so many concerts...
...large turnout can cause susrprising and pleasing results; the national election in Japan Wednesday is a good example. Dopesters, figuring on a lower percentage of voters, decided the Communists would lose some seats in the Diet but would still be a factor. Every Communist voter was certain to cast a ballot, while some Liberals always miss the election. Actually, 76 percent of the eligible population voted, and all the Communists got was a sandal-print on their backs. Contrast this to the 57 percent showing in the last American election...