Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain that is still what it means. For the past 25 years, Wall Street Journal readers have become accustomed to a different meaning. A leader is the name put by Journal staffers to the long, well-researched general news stories that heighten and enliven the paper's regular diet of business news...
...thesis entitled Christian Life and Problems of Sexuality. After it was published as a book, Abbe Oraison was summoned to the Holy Office at the Vatican, where, he recalls, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo counseled him that the best methods for preserving sexual purity are a good diet and fear of sin. As Abbé Oraison wrote in Le Monde: "Twice Cardinal Pizzardo repeated to me, 'For purity-fright, spaghetti and beans.' " Then Cardinal Ottaviani told the French priest that his book had been placed on the Index of Prohibited Books...
...appears to be through his stomach. Gary Player will go on for hours about the nutritive values of raisins. Jack Nicklaus dotes on oysters, consuming as many as six dozen at a sitting. Billy Casper, the year's top money winner ($81,515 so far) swears by a diet of buffalo steak and mooseburger. Last week at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Al Geiberger, 28, won the big gest prize of his seven-year pro career -the $25,000 P.G.A. championship - and announced that he owed it all to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches...
...supervision of Theologian-Archaeologist Nelson Glueck. Purvis, who says that he left behind "three angry children and an equally angry wife," earns his keep by arising each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs and bread, swats his share of flies, and sleeps at night in a tent. For these privileges, he paid his own round-trip fare...
...Commissioner Goddard's belief that most Americans get all the vitamins and minerals they need from an ordinary, varied diet [July 1] makes me realize he is no nutritionist. He is thinking of the days when the pioneers moved west because their soil was no longer fertile. Today we have made "great strides." We grow our food on depleted soils fertilized with chemicals, sprayed with poisons. We have pasteurized, homogenized, bleached, refined and "enriched": "Enriched" flour is flour from which 25 natural nutrients have been removed during refining; it is "enriched" by replacing one-third the original amount...