Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publications ranging from the Reader's Digest to LIFE to the National Geographic, Dickey never demanded any special treatment. Men did their best to keep her out of danger, but she always managed to find it. While covering the rebels in Algeria, she learned to subsist on a diet of half a dozen dates a day, to sleep on a rock, to urinate only once a day to prevent dehydration. She could do 50 pushups. "In fatigues and helmet," said an admiring Marine Corps commander in Viet Nam, "you couldn't tell her from one of the troops...
...Nauset Indians using a bright red waxy berry that seemed good to eat as well as valuable for making poul tices and preserving game. The Indians called the berry sassamanesh; the Pilgrims rechristened it the cranberry. At first confined to New England, and mainly to Cape Cod, as a diet staple and profitable source of income, the cranberry gradually conquered the holiday tables of the nation. This month, when Americans buy more cranberries than at any other time of the year, no Thanksgiving dinner will be considered complete without them. The most important fact about the $54 million cran berry...
...about his health. "I feel like I had a baseball right here in my right side,"he said. This time, though, he was content merely to point to the most celebrated scar since Jenkins' Ear.* What's more, allowed Lyndon Johnson, he is unhappy with his strict diet, begun in August (few starches and fats, no liquor) aimed at trimming his weight down to 187 lbs. When he complains about it to Lady Bird, she retorts: "You can't run the country if you can't run yourself...
Their other forms of protest haven't effectively communicated their position either. Full page advertisements in the New York Times do little to convince the readers of the Daily News and Boston Globe, who have been fed a steady diet of unsympathetic news reports of the marches. "Teachins" reach few outside the university community...
...choirboy, he argued like a Bolshevik, dressed like a bum, drank like a culvert, smoked like an ad for cancer, bragged that he was addicted to onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman who was willing, subsisted largely on a diet of ice cream sodas mixed with ale instead of seltzer, and all the while belabored the general ear with wild and wonderful hwyl, as the Welsh call eloquence...