Word: meatlessness
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...fourth year of war rolled to a close on July 7, it found Japan this week still fighting, still strong-but taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...
...cease. Housing had stopped dead. In another year the whole civil population would have been clothed in a cheap but serviceable sort of uniform. Flaps from pockets would have disappeared. At Alice Longworth's recommendation, steel had been taken out of women's corsets. There were gasless, meatless, sugarless, fuelless days. And the nation's cartoonists played day in & out with a colorful character named High Cost of Living...
...proprietors who fled the clatter of U.S. civilization. They live in two kinds of monasteries: cenobite (communistic) and idiorrhythmic (allowing private property, which reverts to the monastery). Many of them lead a truly monkish life of prayer and Church scholarship, a shabby life without bathing or toothbrushing, with a meatless diet and only brief snatches of sleep, because "sleep inflames the body." They live on contributions and on the making and selling of wine, farm products, religious paintings and trinkets. Some are so ignorant or unworldly that they have heard only vaguely of Adolf Hitler-"a great German king...
...Messenger's tenets was that one could become immortal if one had no bad thoughts. To prove his belief, or to show it off, he adopted five-month-old Baby Jean Gauntt, installed her in the mansion with a nurse, and put her on a meatless diet surrounded by nothing but "good." Immortality for Baby Jean was in the bag, said he. For some strange reason the tabloids took...
Rumanians agreed to eliminate "parasitic" industries, grow grain for Germany. British war equipment, sent to strengthen weak-chinned King Carol as an ally, will be shipped to Germany. Sharing the honor of Axis membership, Rumanians were also asked to share its fasting-three meatless meals weekly and practically no butter as large quantities were consigned to the butter-starved Reich. Germans guarding the Ploesti oil field saw three wells burn, firmly declared the fires were accidental, not sabotage...