Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolt is just what the doctor ordered for a chronic case of national fiscal obesity. We've finally realized that the way to control the Government monster is to cut back on its diet of our money...
...book? Army chaplains might some day need to confirm that, yes, Sikhs must never shave, that WACs who are strict Muslims must wear ankle-length garments or that Seventh-day Adventists may indeed require a vegetarian diet at the mess hall. The Department of the Army takes pride in its ecumenical new publication and notes that college teachers are requesting copies...
...Marseillais, those dark, stocky descendants of every Mediterranean race. Their women are among the most fascinating in the world, with their harsh, deep voices, tough yet utterly feminine manners and smooth, ageless skins. Their abiding strength and sensuality, Fisher speculates, may be the result of a lifelong diet of Provençal tomatoes and olive...
...ties and baggy pants. They sag because he recently weighed as much as 195 Ibs.?a heft reached when, observing his own well-publicized warnings against smoking, he stopped inhaling three packs of cigarettes a day. Instead, he began eating four daily meals and ballooned. Now on a diet, backed by a 45-min. noon-hour jog around the Mall, he has ignored his own department's cautions about saccharin. He often drinks Tab at lunch. And he is a shade sensitive about the tendency of cartoonists to exaggerate his double chin...
...fact is that Jimmy Carter and his entourage bore the Washington press corps," Hess writes in the Washington Post. "Reporters in the capital have had a steady diet of excitement in recent years-with the exception of the brief Ford interregnum-and have come to require bigger and bigger doses of news intoxicants." Certainly neither Vance nor Brzezinski is as fascinating as Kissinger (their side comments are never as memorable as his), and Carter isn't as outlandish as Lyndon Johnson or as malignant as Nixon. What to do then...