Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diplomatic Diet. To document their case, the authors-Captain William J. Lederer, U.S.N., an Annapolis graduate and special assistant to Admiral Felix B. Stump in the Pacific, and Political Scientist and Novelist (The Ninth Wave) Eugene Burdick-have chosen to write a series of fictional sketches "based on fact." They are really a series of crude, black-and-white cartoons...
...Netherlands walked up for her annual Speech from the Throne with the heavy grace of a Wagnerian diva. Last week a trim, svelte (25 Ibs. lighter) Juliana delivered another royal oration, and the London Sunday Dispatch gleefully revealed what it claimed to be the slimming secret: a bland diet ordered by a fat, fiftyish hair-restorer salesman named Jos de Cock, who runs the "Enorga Institute" in The Hague. After an analysis of strips of litmus paper that a prospective weight loser licks after meals, went the story, De Cock devises a special diet for a low-calorie fee (sample...
...Lions! Snakes!" Family life in the roomy, two-story house with the pillared porch flourished on a steady diet of Bible reading and chores, but when these were done, the lusty young Eisenhowers were discharged to tumble in the cavernous hayloft out back, above Uncle Abraham Eisenhower's veterinarian establishment. Milton, frail and spindly from scarlet fever in his fourth year, was a frequent outcast kibitzer, to be seized unawares by mischievous hands and flung bodily into the black haymow amid terrifying cries of "Lions! Tigers! Snakes...
Before competent authorities could decide whether there was any evil to end, cariocas had the jitters. Sales of beef dropped 40% in Rio, as much as 80% in other cities, and the price of tenderloin plummeted from 50? a pound to 3?. Millions of Brazilians took to a fish diet...
...Williamsport the Monterrey kids had to make some adjustments. They brought their own hot peppers with them, but had to give up the usual diet of beans, goat meat and tortillas for American fare. They were amazed at the plentiful supply of milk, often drank more at one sitting than their families back home could afford in a whole week. Little League doctors found them in fine health. Not one had a cavity in his teeth. None of the youngsters could speak English, but they got along famously with U.S. boys...