Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diverts attention from its own shortcomings by inflaming the mob against the British. Farouk does not love the British either,* but he realizes that Egypt's security lies with the West. He is openly appalled by the foolish Wafdist flirtation with the Russians, and aware that the daily diet of riots has weakened all authority in Egypt...
...become Mussolini's model col ony, still hold many of the best jobs, own the best farms, run the best businesses. Eight-tenths of the people are farmers or nomadic herdsmen, yet a U.N. survey team reports discouragedly that the country "is hardly able to afford an adequate diet for its own people...
...founded and edited Modern Screen for Dell publications, started Sport for Macfadden. Some drastic changes showed up in last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew of bloodshed, bosoms and pseudo-science that had built the Weekly up in its heyday, but let it down in its old age. (The first Weekly editor, Morrill Goddard, regularly held up as a model to his writers the famed Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD...
Like Hoppy himself, Smoky Callaway becomes a TV craze on the strength of his ancient horse operas. Unlike Hoppy, Smoky in real life is an ornery cuss-a chippie-chasing roisterer on a steady diet of alcohol. What is worse, from the standpoint of Hucksters Fred MacMurray and Dorothy McGuire, Smoky has been missing for years. When their sponsor insists on meeting him, they hire a Hollywood agent (Jesse White) to follow Smoky's alcoholic spoor wherever it may lead, and bring him back alive...
...Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater, room for sport (Gene Tunney learned to box in the Greenwich House basement). A gay, grandmotherly type, Mrs. Sim once said: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good. I'm really pretty realistic...