Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly simple matter of diet that medicine has made one of its most conspicuous gains for the aged. In the early 1900s the idea got around that old people needed less protein, and they were often advised to go on a vegetarian diet. Then came low-salt diets. "Don't fall for that old vegetarian routine," warns Dr. Cowdry. "It'll kill you. And a low-salt diet is just as bad unless it's prescribed for a specific reason, such as a certain kind of heart disease." A good average diet for later life, according...
...days later Admiral Dufek, Commander Eugene Maher and Ensign John Wilson stepped aboard the Slava, were promptly whisked to Captain Solianik's cabin for a few fast rounds of whisky and vodka. After weathering several toasts, Admiral Dufek explained that he was a vegetarian and could not stay to lunch. He departed with Commander Maher, leaving Ensign Wilson to represent the U.S. Navy...
...they will choose nobody yet knows, but it is already clear that the choice will have a profound effect on the future character of the University. The cannibal has not yet turned vegetarian...
Hauled off to jail, Pagala Baba demanded meat instead of the customary vegetarian prison diet. Said he: "I am indifferent to punishment by men because God's justice is supreme." Last week, given a "lenient" sentence of two years "because of his age," he was no longer so indifferent to man's justice. A number of wealthy Cuttack admirers, trustees of the Kaliaboda math, had persuaded him to appeal the sentence. He gave in, on the ground that the "high court is a little nearer God's justice than the lower court." But the people of Cuttack...
...Salvador, Iceland and New Zealand, some 260 delegates journeyed to do homage to an organization that has power to subpoena none. They represented a total of 1.5 billion people. There, in the flesh, were black men, brown men and white, Communist and capitalist, Moslem and Confucian, atheist and Christian, vegetarian and carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates say, their presence...