Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking to the Mid-winter meeting of the Chicago Dental Society, the men asserted that their study of the changes in structure might inaugurate further experimentation on the causes of tooth decay. They added that, eventually the research might show what to put in a dental diet...
...Lewis had named as corespondent. Angrily vowing that she never had her face lifted, Fannie claimed, depending on her audience, that her smooth, unlined skin was the result of 1) secret face creams, 2) exotic lotions, 3) a "Siberian snow face mask," 4) a young husband, 5) a diet of green vegetables...
...About 8,000 P.W.s are harbored in each compound, about twice as crowded as they should be. They sleep on straw mats, and each man has two blankets. They are fed three times a day-rice, beans, fish, pepper mash, soy sauce. This is a nourishing, 2,800-calorie diet, on which many prisoners have gained weight...
...native superstition, the trouble began in Sacred Crocodile Lake, where, 60 years or more ago, King Mwanga used to hurl human sacrifices to feed the beasts. Mwanga thought the crocodiles embodied the spirits of his ancestors, but after his death an enlightened colonial government put the beasts on a diet of fish. Later, the government cleaned them out of the lake altogether-or thought it did. But last week, an alert game warden discovered one little four-foot croc still in residence. Ah, said the natives, old Mwanga himself. A hunt began, and the little croc vanished...
Cold and hungry on a diet of cabbage and barley, Schleicher fended for himself once again, and was caught stealing a handful of potatoes. The Russians convicted the P.W. and gave him 25 years at hard labor. Schleicher went to work driving rivets. He spoiled a rivet and a guard hit him with a chain. It broke Schleicher's nose, jaw and-ankle. The Russians sent him to a hospital, and when his ankle refused to mend, they shipped him home. Schleicher got back to Germany in 1948 to find that his wife had remarried and that...