Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple platform of fukki, meaning literally "return again," or reunion with Japan at once. His conservative opponent, Junji Nishime, called for ittaika, literally "making one body," or reunion with Japan in a more gradual fashion that would not plunge prospering Okinawans back to a "barefoot existence and sweet-potato diet." In the noisiest campaign in Okinawa's history, Nishime came off second best. When he cornered Yara in a television debate on the economic consequences of U.S. withdrawal (U.S. spending accounts for half the island's G.N.P.), voters were only offended at his disrespect for the opponent...
...Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker...
...wholesale grocer who is termed a "pickle salesman" by the police, sheepishly confesses that he has slept with about 300 different women in the last six months. "My, you've been a busy little beaver," a detective quips. Not to be outdone, his sidekick adds, "Find out what diet he's on and have it mimeographed." DeSalvo himself becomes a deadpan comic--as deadpan as only Curtis can be. Posing as a plumber, he tells a victim that "you're on my list," to gain entrance into her apartment. And then, after his first on-screen assault begins...
...Viet Nam war!" and "Down with the Security Pact!" Many were stained by the purple dye which had been mixed with the water in fire hoses used to fight them off in an earlier attack on Japan's Defense Headquarters. Though students had also tried to assault the Diet building and the U.S. embassy, Shinjuku had been chosen as the major target because it is the departure point for many of the supplies sent to U.S. forces in Viet Nam. But the rioters' declared aim was to force the suspension of the U.S.Japan Defense Pact...
...standard list Murphy added the Humphrey postulates-no feasts in his room, "just cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...