Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matagulay said that the Viet Cong moved freely over the countryside and that in the villages peasants freely offered rebels food and shelter. The typical menu for both prisoner and captors was rice, salt and fish oil. Rats were an occasional delicacy that brightened the diet-served both as rat soup and barbecued rodent. Though game was plentiful, the Reds never hunted. "They were afraid to use up ammunition hunting deer," said Matagulay...
...dramatic command of the role." Her voice, chilly in its lack of vibrato but warm in its swelling power, makes her best for the German opera, and the summit of her ambition is to sing Isolde. Crespin and her Alsatian husband live quietly on a demanding musical diet dictated by her commitments to opera. Her life is now crowded by a 48-week-a-year schedule, but she earnestly gives her free time to learning new roles. As her repertory grows, she is plagued by a persistent dream: she comes onstage, sings two acts, then in the third forgets...
Ever since its birth in 1291, when three Alpine cantons banded together for protection against Germany, Switzerland has treasured its strict neutrality in world affairs.* As early as 1674 the Swiss Diet officially pronounced the concept to be the country's guiding principle. The one time that Switzerland was forced to join an outside conflict-by leaping to the Austro-British side against Napoleon in 1815 six days before Waterloo-Swiss soldiers sent into France lost interest, turned around and went home. Neutral in two world wars this century. Switzerland is today not even a member of the United...
...evening "intervisitation" between boys and girls in the dormitories. Reed is so anti-organization that it has no fraternities and only the most tepid intercollegiate athletics-a dart competition with a Catholic seminary, a basketball game with the University of Oregon's dental school. The usual weekend diet is study, study, study...
...another case, a mother began giving her daughter whopping doses of multiple vitamins when she was only three weeks old. The baby also got one egg yolk every day; soon, she got vegetables generously doused with butter. The diet added up to an enormous oversupply of vitamin A. Now nine years old, the girl has a right leg almost three inches shorter than her left...