Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found at her two "Maine Chance" farms. She opened the original in Mount Vernon, Me., in 1934, followed up in 1947 with a second in Phoenix. Described as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," they prescribed a regimen of exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner, Edna Ferber, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Gwen Cafritz, Perle Mesta...
What's a Weeb? All of which goes to show that there is nothing like a diet of lettuce to make a football team healthy...
...close they could come to hitting me." Finally, three weeks after his crash, Dengler was led into a bamboo stockade somewhere near the trail and locked up in crude, wooden "footcuffs" with six other U.S. flyers. The prisoners were fed a handful of rice twice a week, supplemented their diet with snakes and anything else that crawled through their hut. "Once," Dengler recalled, "we caught a snake that had swallowed two rats. We cut it open and ate the rats. Then we ate the snake...
Coos & Contempt. From Peking, after a meeting between Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi and eight visiting members of the Japanese Diet, came word that Chen had cooed a few hopeful words about peace talks. Just as Washington started wondering whether the war's most obdurate advocate might be backing off a bit, the Chinese ambassador to Poland, Wang Kuo-chuan, set matters straight. Following a meeting in Warsaw with U.S. Ambassador John Gronouski, the latest in a series of 130 private, little-noted conferences between representatives of the two nations since 1954, Wang delivered a blistering statement, obviously...
...that there is "ample evidence" that some of the tests reflect cultural value systems that are foreign to the underprivileged and therefore do not correctly assess their basic intelligence. As for medical rejects, military doctors will try to salvage the less serious of them by getting overweight men to diet away excess poundage. Next year, the doctors will also begin performing surgery on men with defects that can be put right in a short time, such as hernias...