Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans to "go straight" now and devote most of his time to Grump. "Today's humor is like frozen food," he says. "Children grow up not only ignorant of what real, good food is but also of what real humor is." Price hopes to enrich their diet...
...with programs whose aim is to exploit at least five of the seven deadly sins. Avarice and gluttony are the main components of such game shows as Let's Make a Deal, where husbands and wives bicker as they try to guess the prices of lawn sprinklers and diet bread, and Supermarket Sweep, where grocery shelves are swept clean by tense men with shopping carts racing against a clock. Envy, too, is an important ingredient of the game-show recipe. The housewife who abandons diaper and vacuum cleaner to watch Jeopardy or You Don't Say! sits...
...were plainly unbothered by Moscow's traditional veto. In the biggest postwar gain in a Finnish election, the Social Democrats won 18 new seats, jumped ahead of the Center (formerly Agrarian) Party and the Communists to become the strongest party, with 56 seats in the 200-seat unicameral Diet...
Countless peptic-ulcer patients are put on a bland diet rich in milk and cream. If they then get cramping ab dominal pains, nausea and diarrhea, even worse than their original com plaints, their doctors usually put them on a still blander diet - meaning more milk. If such patients shirk their milk drinking and their symptoms diminish, the usual explanation is a quick, glib suggestion that they must be allergic to milk. Not so, report two University of Colorado doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. The trouble is far more likely to be a shortage of the enzyme that...
Because the olive oil-rich Italian diet yields some of the world's finest, most naturally silky hair, Italian wigs are highly prized. Lately, in an effort to capitalize on the big new U.S. market for artificial hairdos, the Italians have gone all out for mass production, installed special sewing machines that turn out wigs eight times faster than by hand. As a result, they doubled production last year to 77,000 wigs worth $1,900,000 looked forward to quadrupling them this year...