Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were still in hiding. But Marcos would have won anyway. As a campaigner, he had the war record (27 medals in World War II), the necessary transportation (he used a squadron of Philippine air force planes) and the crowd-pleasing, youthful good looks (which he preserves with a largely vegetarian diet and frequent yoga exercises...
After Stalingrad, Hitler stayed up later and later as insomnia overcame him. Meals, which had once been merely lengthy, now became distasteful. Hitler, a vegetarian, insisted on describing the meat soup served to his tablemates as "corpse tea." Along with Eva Braun, Hitler said, his only true friend was his German shepherd Blondi. When the dog acted friendly toward other people, the Führer would angrily order it to heel...
Shaw was never a comfortable man to have around, and not merely because he was a teetotaler and a lifelong vegetarian either. As a house guest he would immediately set about rearranging the furniture and taking over the education of the children. His passion for showing people how to do things extended to his biographers ("The best authority on Shaw is Shaw," he told Archibald Henderson), and he insisted on writing a good part of his biographies by Henderson, Hesketh Pearson and Frank Harris. He simply could not bear to see anyone doing something he could do better...
Jesus and Shelley. Sinclair's writing was long-winded, his naivete often distracting, his fiction more polemical than literary. He was a vegetarian who lived on brown rice, fresh fruit, celery and dried milk. He never smoked or drank (his temperance tracts were inspired by the sad example of his father, an alcoholic whisky salesman). He dabbled in spiritualism...
Private Sessions. That does not seem to bother the four Merseysiders and their ladies-the three Beatle wives, Paul McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week...