Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of overlapping parts. There are the geographic, social and natural histories of the Himalayas, along with the day-by-day accounts of the journey: trekking in sun, rain, wind and snow; sleeping night after night in a leaky one-man tent; existing on a crude, monotonous diet; dealing with reluctant porters; avoiding the snarling village mastiffs; living with the long silences and terse exchanges on the trail; and the flora, fauna and overwhelming vistas of peaks and valleys at the top of the world. There are frequent outcroppings of autobiography as Matthiessen, scion of a wealthy New York family...
...make the stipulated 40 moves in five hours of play. In Baguio City, the first player to win six games takes the match; since draws are frequent in top-level play, the men will need both ample patience and stamina. To keep in shape, Korchnoi jogs daily; his diet includes health foods and Iranian caviar-of which he has imported enough to last 30 games. Karpov, whom one observer likened to "a Boy Scout," swims, rows and does calisthenics...
...highest ranks. She became a perennial semifinalist, a player who sabotaged her talent with breakdowns in concentration under pressure. But last fall Navratilova finally calmed down. Under the management of former Professional Golfer Sandra Haynie, now an athletes' agent, Navratilova bought a home and went on a rigid diet. With Haynie courtside wagging signals, Martina brought her temper under control and soon was chopping down opponents, as well as her own excess poundage...
...message to underclass blacks is that they must learn not to rely on help from the outside, that they must take responsibility for their own upward mobility and the quality of their lives. "Too many of our schools are infested with a steady diet of violence, vandalism, drugs, intercourse without discourse, alcohol and television addiction," says he. "The result has been to breed a passive and superficial generation...
...London's wispy, doe-eyed model turned singer, and Michael Witney, her actor husband; their first child; in November. Twiggy, who is 5 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 91 lbs. at the height of her career, has now ballooned to 112 lbs., and is embarking on a diet to stave off pregnancy pounds. She faces childbirth philosophically: "It's all a bit scary in a way because it's the first one. But then people have them in forests and rice fields, don't they? And they all seem to manage...