Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of White's visions concerned diet. She saw her followers making "a god of their bellies" and over the years issued various dietary regulations stressing vegetarianism and forbidding alcohol and tobacco. Another of her visions showed that masturbation could lead to "imbecility, dwarfed forms, crippled limbs, misshapen heads and deformity of every description." During one trance, "companies of females" appeared to her; those wearing the floor-length dresses of the 1860s looked "feeble and languid," while those in shorter skirts had "cheerful countenances." For ten years she struggled to get her Adventist sisters to wear their skirts nine...
...individual all-around contest, and two in the individual-apparatus competition-showings good enough to win her three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Whether doing backflips on the beam or rocketing herself around the uneven bars, the deceptively frail-looking sprite (she watches her diet strictly-no junk food) was so much in her element that the audience had no more fear of her falling than of a fish drowning. ABC's Jim McKay, offering television's best-turned phrase of the week, described her as "swimming in an ocean of air." Reassured by Nadia...
...most costly, unfair, outrageous thing that happens in America." To get a better feeling for the problems of the deprived, Mondale has marched with Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers, visited Indians in the West and Eskimos in Alaska, and-with his wife -gone on a welfare diet for a week...
...gymnastics, if you don't feel right, you might as well forget performing." Last month her training pace at the Palace of Sports in Minsk was up to five hours a day and her weight was down 7 lbs. (to 103), thanks to a fresh fruit and vegetable diet. Turishcheva has never looked more determined. Says she: "Nothing matters but first place in Montreal." She may not be the crowd pleaser her two prime competitors are, but she has an attribute that always impresses athletes: she wins...
...question of his tenure as Premier will eventually be decided in the usual L.D.P. manner-by a backroom bargain. In large measure, this is because the party is a diverse umbrella organization including everything from right-wing nationalists to non-Marxist leftists; among its 274 members in the Diet are businessmen dabbling in politics, full-time politicians, a sprinkling of former civil servants and even entertainers. The L.D.P. has roughly half a dozen major factions, and like feudal fiefdoms of old, they are constantly forming and dissolving alliances-and buying support with generous amounts of money...