Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...
...There is no need for legality, since Ohmi Mills are built on honorable kindness," cried the owner of Ohmi Mills, fat, feudalistic old Kakuji Natsukawa. He could not understand what his girls were striking about (TIME, July 5). Promises of honorable kindness-no time clocks to punch, free schooling, dormitories, libraries-had lured thousands of young girls off farms to work at $10 a month, and built his silk mills into Japan's sixth largest textile company. But honorable kindness, also meant that officials penned them up in their dormitories, opened their mail, blocked romance, forced them to attend...
...Fat, No Fat. Preceding Reeve in a similar drip test was 20-year-old Arthur Birk (Brethren) of Teegarden, Ind. As soon as the doctors had learned what they could about the effect of ACTH on his adrenals' output of electrocortin, they put him on a salt-free diet. All he had to do was to promise not to take any food or drink away from the center. He could work on its house newspaper or play golf or go into Bethesda for the movies. But it was no snap: he lost 15 pounds in a week...
Some volunteers go on diet rotation: one week with low fat, one with no fat, one on high fat. During each stage, the human guinea pigs are tapped for blood samples for studies of the fat content. Some get a regular prebreakfast injection of heparin (a drug usually administered to prevent bloodclotting) to see what effect it has on fats in the blood...
...menopause, it "provides a setting for a climax of all the feelings a woman may have about her uterus . . . It is expected that at the 'change of life' she will become emotionally unstable, petulant, demanding, irascible . . . frigid; will 'lose her womanhood,' will become fat and unattractive, and in a final step in her dissolution will 'lose her mind...