Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallons per man, woman and child. But it is now possible, in the big cities, to find a gas station open before 9 a.m. and a stationery store after 5 p.m. In Sydney or Melbourne, a man who doesn't feel like Australia's traditional diet-steak and eggs, with tomato sauce poured over it-can dine on sukiyaki, entrecote a la bordelaise, or Koenigs-berger Klops. And at his new $500,000 pasta factory in Brisbane, Sicilian-born Frank de Pasquale complacently estimates that where only 5% of Australians ate spaghetti ten years ago, some...
Adams' column, "The Conning Tower," provided a varied diet of puns, epigrams, wry humor, and observations on man's minor imperfections and the minutiae of life. His sharp eye surveyed the theater: Helen Hayes, he observed, after seeing her coy performance in Caesar and Cleopatra, suffered from "fallen archness." He rewrote razor-blade ads ("Ask the man who hones one"), and punctured politicians ("When candidates appeal to 'Every-intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them"). He drafted fond couplets to his young sons...
...make some for other patients. Mrs. Rudkin began making batches in her kitchen with the help of a servant, then set up a small bakery in the farm's abandoned stable, added white bread made from unbleached flour for patients who could not take much roughage in their diet...
...overweight children studied in one community, 80% became overweight adults-and adult obesity goes with increased liability to heart-and-artery disease. In fact, says Garn, the American child's diet, sometimes characterized as "one big milk shake," is perilously akin to a diet used by medical researchers to create death-dealing obesity in rats. He concludes: "Frappes, fat-meat hamburgers, bacon-and-mayonnaise sandwiches, followed by ice cream, may be good for the farmer, good for the undertaker, and bad for the populace...
...Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster. As Webster, Robinson bargained eloquently for the soul of a New England farmer who had sold out to Satan for material wealth. During rehearsals, Rumanian-born Actor Robinson allowed: "I wouldn't want television as a steady diet. It's back-breaking work...