Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient's kidneys were infected, inflamed, and all but useless. For a time, he had been kept alive by drugs and a strict diet limiting his intake of fluids and salt. But that was only temporary treatment. His doctors calculated that he had about eight weeks to live...
...nearly 250,000 people pass through the New York subway system between 3 and 7 a.m. An "Occupational Wage Survey" conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that 448,000 people leave their jobs at midnight. Nine weeks ago, the station started round-the-clock programming, offering a diet of (what else?) old movies...
...during the past ten years because of the widespread and successful campaign for annual physical checkups among women and because of the Pap test, which permits early detection. Mortality from cancer of the stomach dropped sharply (32% in men, 36% in women), perhaps as a result of changed diet...
...Blooded Socialism. Hoiles, reports one Texas merchant after a long diet of the local Hoiles paper, is "against every damned thing on earth." In his papers, he has attacked Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers as too leftwing, called all taxes "the theft of wages." argued that fire departments, public libraries, highways, and even the armed forces ought to be maintained strictly by voluntary contributions. His most splenetic outbursts are reserved for the public school system. When teachers try to argue with him, he snaps, "How can an inmate of a house of prostitution discuss chastity...
...Gimmicks? To feed the hunger, the papers apparently decided that the best diet was the mixture as before. The News, with the biggest circulation in the U.S. (2,055,266), and the Times, with the biggest reputation, stuck with proven recipes. The others promised major changes that turned out. at best, to be bits of fancy garnishing...