Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavier (555 Ibs.) last year, worked as a carnival fat lady. Then she had a heart attack and retired from show business. Last week, on her 50th birthday, five-foot Dollie was down to 154. Said she: "It's simple. All anyone has to do is diet properly." She did it by cutting down to 800 calories a day (normal U.S. diet: 3,000 calories...
...common soldier . . . his only recommendation for the job was his enormous brute strength. He was accustomed to amuse his soldiers by crumbling stones in his hand, and he could break a horse's leg with his heel. He was 8 ½ feet tall, and his regular diet included nearly 8 gallons of wine and 40 Ibs. of meat...
When the National Collegiate Athletic Association voted (161 to 7) to ration football telecasts this fall, it proposed a diet of one game a week for each television area. This lean fare, the N.C.A.A. hoped, would get the football public out of its armchair and back into the stands again. But last week, tempted by an offer of some $250,000 from ABC for the right to televise its eight home games, the University of Pennsylvania plunked the public back in its armchair by announcing it intended to defy the N.C.A.A. ruling...
...Rigid Diet. In Chicago, the Tribune syndicate's health columnist told a worried reader that her habit of eating three boxes of laundry starch a week would do her no harm, but asked her to let him know if it stiffened her stomach...
...native good sense. No mere passionless chronicler, Historian Bryant knows what he likes and doesn't like. "True aristocracy, after true religion," he writes, "is the greatest blessing a nation can enjoy." And the older England had enjoyed that blessing, along with several lesser ones-including the best diet in the world...