Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eater will store up, and whether there is anything peculiar about fat storage in obese people. Soon they had 32 patients in the institute's hospital, plus ten outpatients, on a low-protein diet with no restriction on the total daily calories-the test subjects could eat as much bread and butter with jam or jelly as they wanted, put sugar and cream in their coffee. Most of them lost weight handsomely while in the hospital. But after they went home and back to eating what they wanted when they wanted it, 52% regained the weight lost, 30% held...
...years of caste dies slowly. In most of India's 560,000 villages, untouchables are still forbidden to enter Brahmans' living areas, use their wells, or watch them eat. Temples are theoretically open to them, but they are still purged with milk -floor, walls, ceilings and idols-after the untouchables leave. Untouchables who have turned Christian often find their lot even worse than before. Shopkeepers may refuse to sell to them, barbers to shave them, and other untouchables sometimes drive them from their wells. This has accelerated the trend back to Hinduism. Hindu sources claim 10,000 reconversions...
...ceaseless fish-eat-fish mood of the reef world ("Most living creatures, including ourselves, live on other creatures," reminds the narrator), there are no more or less evil villains, only keener appetites and larger gullets. Best comic is a baby sea turtle who hungrily attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense...
...Loren to guest-write a column for its vacationing Gossipist Dorothy Kilgallen. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce bigarrade," Sophia's advice to American girls: "Everything I've got I got from eating spaghetti...
...Keep your habits simple. Eat plenty of meat, bread, potatoes and gravy, and forget the fancy stuff like vee-she-swa. If your mother can't cook, run away from home...