Word: vegetarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their summer lunch hours in midtown Manhattan, office workers now can pass up the hot-dog man in favor of felafel wrapped in Syrian bread, or quiche Lorraine, a gyro sandwich, shish kebab or exotically spiced vegetarian dishes. At stands on corners all over the city, teenagers sell juice freshly squeezed from oranges and watermelons...
Military uses-and abuses-of mind science A Defense Department study exploring the feasibility of using odor bombs in Asia suggested that a vegetarian tribe could be effectively sickened and confused by flooding the jungle with the concentrated body odor of meat eaters. During the 1960s Congo rebellion, another Pentagon study investigated the possibility of creating "special magic potions" for use by friendly Congolese troops. In Viet Nam, American forces distributed "propaganda soap" layered with anti-Viet Cong messages, and experimented at Cam Ranh Bay with dolphins in underwater surveillance and detection...
...book? Army chaplains might some day need to confirm that, yes, Sikhs must never shave, that WACs who are strict Muslims must wear ankle-length garments or that Seventh-day Adventists may indeed require a vegetarian diet at the mess hall. The Department of the Army takes pride in its ecumenical new publication and notes that college teachers are requesting copies...
...most Americans, Indian music is one of those fads that went out with the '60s. It conjures up images of burning incense, Sri Chinmoy and vegetarian snack bars. Most Americans' exposure to it is through Western popular musicians...
...evening is richest when Shaw tilts a lance in defense of a cause or breaks it over the head of a foe. Doctors and their medical pretensions are greedy frauds to Shaw, and he skewers them with paradox and irony. As a vegetarian, he amusingly pictures his funeral procession with his casket followed by the herds of cows, pigs and fowl that he has spared, all in white ties. He eulogizes Christ as a nonconformist and identifies with St. Joan as an "insufferable" know...