Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goony bird, a type of albatross, is an odd and charming creature which serves no useful purpose at all. It spends most of its life at sea and subsists entirely on a diet of fish-a fact which makes goonyburgers much too fishy for some human taste. Sailors gave it its name, because it is such a goony bird. One of the largest of all sea birds, it develops a wingspread of 7 ft.* It is capable of flying for many hours without resting. Like an airplane, it runs to get up flying speed, takes off into the wind, retracts...
Acute starvation produces similar susceptibility in humans. So does diabetes. But most victims of diseases contracted under these malign spells recover their resistance to infection when their diet or metabolism is corrected. It may be that even among well-fed and generally healthy individuals, Dr. Dubos suggests, the ability to ward off attack by infectious agents will vary greatly from day to day. If so, it may explain why a nurse or attendant in a leprosarium may be exposed to infection for years and then, mysteriously, fall victim to the disease. As Dubos puts it: "Contact and receptivity...
...heads in the rear window and shouted: "Hey, Mamie, how about your autograph?" She obliged. The volunteer workers serving coffee and doughnuts had a bad case of nerves. One confessed later: "My knees were so weak that I was afraid I'd pour coffee on the First Lady." Diet-conscious Mamie was a little unsettled herself by the doughnuts, but reached for one reluctantly ("Oh dear me, I would take the one with the most sugar...
Died. Yukio Ozaki, 95, donor of Washington's famed cherry trees; of an intestinal ailment; near Yokohama. A longtime (1890-1953) member of the Japanese Diet (which called him the "father of Parliaments") and mayor (1903-12) of Tokyo, Internationalist Ozaki sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 trees in 1909 in gratitude for U.S. mediation efforts in the Russo-Japanese War. When an insect-conscious U.S. Agriculture Department burned them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough...
Artist Wiinblad, 35, was a struggling painter of children's portraits who worked as a typesetter to round out his diet during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Friends at the Arts and Crafts School introduced him to ceramics. Fascinated, he defied the Nazi curfew to slip into the school at night to work at the kilns. After his first ceramics show proved a critical and popular success, he started his own shop with three kilns and two helpers. They worked long and seriously through the week. But on Saturday they had fun, making spontaneous, gay pieces. Since then, these...