Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also, he has had a break because his rice dishes prepared in the center's elaborate metabolic kitchens have included such delicacies as olives, mushrooms and an apple pie (made with a rice crust...
...Wonder of Apple Pie. The one feature that Dr. Dunbar observed in the lives of all centenarians was that they had kept busy. A banker who turned over his business at the age of 100 to his son immediately became active as an organizer of boys' clubs. A woman of 113 was putting several great-grandchildren in succession through college with earnings from needlework. Reasoned Dr. Dunbar: "Retirement and enforced education in leisure defeat their own goal. Those who remain healthy after age 65 wish to work, and they stay healthy because they work...
Centenarians differ widely in their views of what helped them to live so long. One will say it is because he smoked, drank, and another that it is because he did not smoke or drink. One old lady gave the credit to having had apple pie for breakfast every morning. But most would agree with the 103-year-old man in McHenry, Ill. who said: "If you want to live long, never lose your temper." What do they eventually die of? Not, as a rule, from the diseases of old age. It seems to Dr. Dunbar that most of them...
...crackling brown and served in a sea of tangy juices. After 14½ steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
...Humble Pie. In Chicago, the Robert Moores decided to give their marriage another try after the judge learned that Moore's income was $65 a week, told him: "You're too poor to enjoy the luxury of a divorce. I suggest that you become reconciled . . . Start off by taking your wife to lunch...